Well-known major league fielder Melki Cabrera announced his retirement, ending a 15-year major league career. The last time he made his appearance in major leagues was in 2019, and although he has not played in major leagues in the past two years, he has played in the Winter League.
Caprera rose from the Yankees to the Major League in 2005, when he was not yet 21 years old, and in 2006 he almost became the Yankees' main fielder, a few years later, and in 2009, he won the Yankees' last championship to date with the Yankees.
Cabrera then embarked on a wandering journey, playing a year each for the Warriors, The Royals, and the Giants. In the Warriors' year, he fell into a low point, the year of the Royals he rebounded, in 2012 at the Giants, he paid a .346/.390/.516 report card for 501 seats and was selected for the only Star Game of his career.
However, his name is not included in the Giants' 2012 champions list, and at the end of the season, he was found to have used banned drugs, and then suffered a ban, which affected some of the games of the 2013 season. Even in the season when he was found to be on drug control, Cabrera's home run was more than a dozen, and after his comeback, Cabrera completely became a Communicative hittingter, with a fairly stable performance in the Blue Jays, Royals, White Sox, Indians and Pirates.
After 2019, the 35-year-old Cabrera became a free agent again, and he signed a minor league contract with the Mets before the 2020 season, but probably because of the new crown, he was eventually cut, which is also his last rumor with the major league team.
Even so, Cabrera's career has been long and exciting, with 15 consecutive seasons in major league appearances since 2005, playing for eight different teams, and contributing 0.285/.334/.417 hits in more than 7500 games, with OPS+ and wRC+ both slightly above the league average.
Cabrera's seemingly rough appearance is actually not strong in home runs, and he has only 144 in his career, but he has 383 second-base hits and 101 steals. Baseball-Reference and Fangraphs calculate that his career's victory contribution value is around 20, and I hope that his life after retirement can be colorful.
(Text/Geng Haoyang)