# Is baseball player Alex Cabrera retired?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 13, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-baseball-player-alex-cabrera-retired/643881 "2012-12-13T00:45:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-baseball-player-alex-cabrera-retired/643881/1 "2012-12-13T00:45:06Z")

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I’m not good with Spanish, so I can’t really make out whether Alex Cabrera, who played in the big leagues in the early 2000s then played all over the world after that, has retired or if he is going to retire following this current season. Can anyone who knows Spanish decipher these articles and let me know ‘what’s what’?

[http://www.lavozdelara.com/Alex%20Cabrera%20asoma%20su%20retiro.html](http://www.lavozdelara.com/Alex%20Cabrera%20asoma%20su%20retiro.html)

> **[Ucrania pide a China que](https://www.eluniversal.com/deportes/beisbol/121210/el-samurai-acaricia-el-retiro)**
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> China se ha negado por ahora a condenar la invasión de Ucrania, pero Kiev le solicitó al gigante asiático a unirse a la postura de Occidente

> **[Álex Cabrera enreda su retiro](http://www.laverdad.com/deportes/16800-alex-cabrera-enreda-su-retiro.html)**
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> Al eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d\[c.toString(a)\]=k\[c\]||c.toString(a)}k=\[function(e){return d\[e\]}\];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k\[c\]){p=p.replace(new...

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**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-baseball-player-alex-cabrera-retired/643881/2 "2012-12-13T02:20:34Z")

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The article says that he had promised to retire if he hit a HR on a game where his son was also on the field. He just did that so he’s seriously considering going through with it.