Miguel Cabrera, photo by Keith Allison.

The Detroit Tigers open the 2011 AL Playoffs tonight in Yankee Stadium.

Over on Absolute Michigan we’ve posted our 2011 Detroit Tiger Playoff Watch. In it, we note that Detroit Tiger slugger Miguel Cabrera captured the American League batting title with a .344 batting average.

After batting .390 in August, Cabrera went .429 (39-for-91) from Sept. 1 onward, racking up 12 doubles, six home runs and 21 RBIs. He had just six hitless games from Aug. 1 on and carries a nine-game hitting streak into the playoffs. The last Tiger to win the AL batting title was Magglio Ordonez who hit .367 in 2007, and that Cabrera joins Alex Rodriguez and Albert Pujols as just the third active player to win a batting title, HR title and RBI title in his career.

Check this photo out background big and in Keith’s awesome MLB – Miguel Cabrerra slideshow.

Congratulations to Cabrera and go Tigers!!