40 Facts About Melky Cabrera

Melky Cabrera Astacio was born on August 11,1984, and nicknamed The Melkman, is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder.

Melky Cabrera played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Melky Cabrera had a strong year with the Royals, and was traded to the Giants for the 2012 season.

In 2012, Melky Cabrera made his first All-Star Game appearance, winning the All-Star Game MVP Award.

Melky Cabrera was signed by the New York Yankees on November 14,2001, at age 17, receiving a $175,000 signing bonus.

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Melky Cabrera played for the Staten Island Yankees in the Class A Short-Season New York–Penn League in 2003, batting.

Melky Cabrera was promoted to the Tampa Yankees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, where he hit.

In 2005, Melky Cabrera started off with the Trenton Thunder of the Double-A Eastern League, hitting.

Melky Cabrera collected his first major league hit, a single, in his third at-bat that day.

Melky Cabrera was sent down to Triple-A Columbus the next day for 17 games and then demoted again, back to Double-A Trenton to finish out the season.

Melky Cabrera saw a lot of time in spring training of 2006 with starting outfielders Johnny Damon and Bernie Williams playing in the World Baseball Classic.

Melky Cabrera started the season strongly at Triple-A Columbus, hitting.

Melky Cabrera finished the 2006 season tied for second in the league with 12 outfield assists.

Melky Cabrera was slotted as fourth outfielder at the beginning of the 2007 season.

Melky Cabrera had a career-high hitting streak of 19 games, while continued to get his share of walks.

Melky Cabrera was involved in a bench-clearing brawl against the Tampa Bay Rays in a 2008 spring training game.

MLB claimed to have seen video showing Melky Cabrera punching superstar Tampa third baseman Evan Longoria during the brawl, and suspended him for two games along with teammate Shelley Duncan.

Melky Cabrera was a less-than-adequate hitter for the Yankees in 2008.

Melky Cabrera's fielding and strong throwing arm in center field could not make up for his poor batting average.

Melky Cabrera batted eighth for the Braves and was described as "pudgy" and not diligent enough about his career to keep his weight down.

Melky Cabrera's hot hitting earned him one of the three starting outfielder positions for the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Kansas City with 7,521,784 votes, the highest number received by a National League outfielder that year.

Melky Cabrera was the fifth Giant player to be honored as All-Star Game MVP.

Melky Cabrera admitted using a banned substance and was forced to accept the suspension.

The suspension was effective immediately, meaning that Melky Cabrera would take no further part for the remainder of the 2012 season.

Melky Cabrera ended his suspension-shortened season with 11 home runs, 10 triples, 60 RBI and 13 stolen bases in 18 opportunities.

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At his own request, Melky Cabrera was ruled ineligible to win the 2012 NL batting title.

Melky Cabrera signed a two-year contract for $16 million with the Toronto Blue Jays on November 19,2012.

Melky Cabrera battled a sore hamstring and quadriceps muscle through the first two months of the regular season, but the injuries did not warrant time on the disabled list.

Melky Cabrera was occasionally removed from games in the later innings to rest his legs.

Melky Cabrera could have faced supplemental discipline regardless of the fact that he served a 50-game suspension at the end of the 2012 regular season, as MLB planned to further suspend players involved in the scandal for trying to cover their use of banned substances by using pseudonyms to purchase Biogenesis products or for falsely denying any involvement whatsoever.

Melky Cabrera would go on to record a four-game home run streak, besting his total of home runs from the previous season.

Melky Cabrera recorded his 500th career RBI on July 26,2014, to aid the Blue Jays in breaking their 17-game losing streak at Yankee Stadium.

Melky Cabrera became the first player to reach base eight times in one game since Hall-of-Famer Rod Carew did so in 1972.

Melky Cabrera remained in the game but came out during his next at-bat in the sixth inning and was taken for x-rays, where it was determined that he had broken his right little finger and would require surgery, ending his 2014 season.

Melky Cabrera re-signed a minor league contract with the Indians on July 5,2018.

On February 10,2019, Melky Cabrera signed a minor league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates that included an invitation to spring training.

Melky Cabrera had the slowest sprint speed of all National League right fielders, at 25.

Melky Cabrera has played for Dominican Republic in the 2021 Caribbean Series.

Melky Cabrera has four daughters, two of them with his wife Johana Melky Cabrera and two older ones who reside with their mothers.

Melky Cabrera is involved in charity work in his native Dominican Republic.