Prince Fielder Signs Nine Year, $214 Million Contract With Detroit Tigers

Prince Fielder agreed Tuesday on a nine-year contract worth $214 million with the Detroit Tigers, pending a physical, according to reports by Yahoo! and CBSSports.com.

After months of speculation, the Tigers emerged fromout of nowhere to land baseball’s biggest remaining free agent.

According to Heyman, with Miguel Cabrera taking on a different role.

Detroit had a gaping hole in the middle of their lineup when Victor Martinez tore his ACL a week ago.  The 27-year-old lefty spent six full seasons with Milwaukee and hit 228 home runs, including 38 last season when he led the Brewers to the NLCS, where they lost to the eventual champion Cardinals. His .299 average and .415 on base percentage in 2011 were both career highs as was his 36 doubles. He also struck out a career low 106 times.

Fielder and Cabrera will make Detroit's 3/4 punch one of the best in baseball.

Fielder is familiar with Detroit, it is the city where he grew up and where his father, Cecil, starred. Cecil set the franchise record with 51 homeruns in 1990, he also was a slugging 1B/DH.

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Prince Fielder signs with Tigers
Chalk up one more for the so-called mystery team. First it was Cliff Lee going to the Phillies, then Albert Pujols heading to the Angels. Now Prince Fielder has shocked the baseball world by signing with the Detroit Tigers, a team that hadn’t even been remotely connected to him in rumors the entire offseason. The robust first baseman has signed a nine-year contract worth $214 million, CBSSports.com insider Jon Heyman has learned.

-CBS Sports

Shocker of a report: Prince Fielder close to deal with Tigers
There was a fake tweet today that Prince Fielder to the Nationals, on an eight-year contract, was a done deal, which caused an initial burst of excitement, until it was revealed as a hoax.

But not more than 10 minutes later came a real tweet from the respected Tim Brown of Yahoo:

-Seattle Times