Barring any unforeseen tragedies, Miguel Cabrera will go down in Baseball history being ranked with Hank Aaron, Mikey Mantle, Ted Williams and Hank Greenberg and Babe Ruth.

Can't, I agree. His numbers have been ridiculous every year for about the last 10. His worst season is better than most peoples' best.

100% correct.

At the pace he's on now.........yes!

Not Ted Williams and not Babe Ruth

Ruth was almost as good a pitcher as he was a hitter. Think about that for a second. Career OPS over 1.000

Ted Williams hit .400, something Miggy will never do, and had a career OPS over  1.000, something Miggy will never do. Then there is Williams' absured 20.6% walk rate to his 7.2% strikeout rate

Basically, Miguel Cabrera would have to put up career years over the next five years to come close to matching either one of those guys.

The game has changed immensely since Ted Williams and Babe Ruth played. Now every team has a 5 man starting rotation and 8 power arms in their bullpen to put into any game. Al Kaline has said that the change in the way that teams structure their pitching staff means that there will never be another .400 hitter. There was no such thing as match ups when Ted and Babe played. Now you can bring in this guy to face one hitter and someone else to face the next hitter, and they all have at least three pitches with velocity in the mid to upper 90s.



You have to look at hitters in the perspective of the time that they play in, and Miggy is (or at least SHOULD be) to this generation what Ted Williams was to his.



 

In terms of being a drunk, and beating his wife he is right up there with a few of those guys.


However, he is a great hitter, and a first ballot HoF'er as sure as I'm a 13'er.

Ted would still be the best hitter in baseball.

Babe Ruth played in parks that were 40-60% larger than today's parks. He hit fly balls that would be out of some stadiums today.

I remember watching Miggy as a rookie with the marlins in the 2003 NLCS. He hit a bomb out on to Waveland, at Wrigley, off of his shoes tops. The guy has incredible talent.

As of now, Miggy has 30 homers, 94 RBI and is hitting .366. He is one of 5 Players in history to have reached these numbers by game 90. Jimmy Fox, Babe Ruth, Lou Gherig and Joe DiMaggio are the others to have done it. It has not been done since the 1930s.

Ted Williams and Babe Ruth didn't face 2 to 3 pitchers a game.  Different era's, I guess.

Pretty much this. Baseball is so vastly different from even 30 years ago, it's difficult to measure players from history to today. But I honestly believe that Ted Williams would have been the greatest hitter of all time, regardless of what era he played in.