Detroit Tigers paying Miguel Cabrera because of Mike Ilitch's sentiment

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It was never about money. Though it's easy to think about the money now, as Miguel Cabrera recovers from surgery that repaired a ruptured biceps tendon, as he misses the rest of the year because of that injury he suffered last week, as he continues to earn close to $30 million a year. And will for the next five years. It's true that whenever someone says — or writes — that it's not about the money, it is, in fact, almost always about the money. But, really, in this case, it isn't. And wasn't. At least it wasn't for Mike Ilitch, the former Detroit Tigers' owner who forked over the largest contract in professional sports history to Cabrera back in 2014. A contract that made no sense at the

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