Caracas.- Miguel Cabrera will be Venezuela’s batting coach in the World Baseball Classic, which will take place in March 2026. The information appeared in the official MLB Instagram account in Spanish and was replicated in the MLB Venezuela and WBC profiles in that social network, Monday afternoon.
Cabrera, who as an active player participated in all the previous editions of the event (2006, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2023), had declared the portal The extraBase He was willing to help the team once again.
“We have to support the National Team,” said Cabrera during spring training. “You have to organize, appointing manager, technical commission, delegate, etc. I think that now is the time to take that helm and be able to do a good job, because there is talent.”
The future member of the Hall of Fame will be put under the orders of the manager Omar López, Recently ratified in officethat digested it in 2023, when Venezuela stayed in the quarterfinals against the United States.
“We can do a better job than in the previous classics,” Miggy said about their expectations regarding the competition of 2026.
-The Venezuelan Baseball Federation has not yet made public the announcement, nor confirmed to the rest of the coaching staff that will accompany López.
After forging one of the best races as a player in the history of the Major Leagues, Cabrera is part of the Detroit Tigers offices since 2024, when he was appointed special assistant of the president of baseball operations, Scott Harris.
Cabrera, 42 years old, acted during 21 campaigns in the older ones, including the last 16 with Detroit. He also played for the Florida Marlins, from 2003 to 2007.
He finished his career with an offensive line of .306/.382/.518, with 627 doubles, 17 triples, 511 homers and 1,881 driven in 2,797 meetings, becoming one of the three toleteros in the baseball annals with at least 3,000 hits, 500 homers and 600 biangular Pujols, who will lead to the Dominican Republic in the classic.
Cabrera comes from her first experience instructing players, as a coach special in Lakeland, Florida, Detroit preseason headquarters. Venezuela was aligned in Group D, which will be eliminated in the Landepot Park in Miami, between 6 and 11 of next March. The selections of the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, Israel and Nicaragua are included in the key.
