UPDATE: Call off the retirement party: Orlando Cabrera told the U.S. media today that the report in the Colombian newspaper was wrong and that he’s not going to retire after 2011. And then -- as if he was targeting me specifically -- he said “I feel I can play for many years. I feel I’m in the best shape of my life. I feel awesome. I don’t feel old at all.”
Now what are we gonna do with this gold watch?
12:39 PM: Via MLB Trade Rumors comes news that Orlando Cabrera told a Colombian newspaper that he doesn’t intend to play beyond the 2011 season.
Which may be academic given how hard it was for him to find a job this winter. Unless he were to make himself over into a hot-hitting super-sub in Cleveland, my guess is that the rest of the league would set his plans about playing after this year, not Cabrera himself.
But hey, at least he gets the Dr. J-style retirement tour.
