Editing Torii Hunter (section)

=== Detroit Tigers ===
[[File:Torii Hunter on June 2, 2013.jpg|225px|thumb|left|Hunter with the [[2013 Detroit Tigers season|Detroit Tigers in 2013]]]]
On November 14, 2012, it was announced that Hunter and the Detroit Tigers had reached a two-year agreement worth $26 million. He would be playing right field and batting second for most of the season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/torii-hunter-deal-detroit-tigers-111412 |title=Sources: Hunter, Tigers reach deal |work=[[Fox Sports]] |date=November 14, 2012 |access-date=November 14, 2012}}</ref> After Hunter signed with the Tigers, pitcher [[Rick Porcello]] let him have #48, which Hunter has worn for his entire career, and Porcello changed his uniform to #21.

On June 16, 2013, Hunter hit his 300th career home run in a game against the [[Minnesota Twins]], in the city where his major league career started (Minneapolis).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130616&content_id=50808706&vkey=news_det&c_id=det |title=Hunter hits career homer No. 300 |last=Erickson |first=Kelly |publisher=detroit.tigers.mlb.com |date=June 16, 2013 |access-date=July 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512224803/http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130616&content_id=50808706&vkey=news_det&c_id=det |archive-date=May 12, 2014 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> On July 1, Hunter was voted in as a reserve outfielder in the AL player voting for the [[2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|2013 Major League All-Star Game]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130706&content_id=52391804&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |title=All-Star Rosters |work=mlb.com |date=July 14, 2013}}</ref> It was his fifth career All-Star selection. As of the All-Star break, Torii was hitting .315 with seven home runs and 44 RBIs.

Hunter finished the 2013 regular season with a .304 batting average, 17 home runs and 84 RBIs. Batting in front of [[Miguel Cabrera]] for most of the season, Torii was walked only 26 times, helping him to the highest at-bats total of his major league career (606), as well as a career-high 184 hits.

In Game 2 of the [[2013 American League Championship Series|ALCS]] Hunter injured himself flipping over the low Fenway Park bullpen wall in pursuit of a David Ortiz game-tying grand slam.

[[File:Paul Nauert.jpg|thumb|Umpire [[Paul Nauert]] with Hunter following an altercation in Baltimore on May 12, 2014.]]
On May 12, 2014, the normally easygoing Hunter had a heated exchange with [[Baltimore Orioles]] hurler [[Bud Norris]] after Norris hit Hunter in the ribs with a fastball during a 4–1 Tiger win at [[Oriole Park at Camden Yards]], sparking a bench-clearing incident.  The two continued shouting at each other as Norris headed to the dugout after being ejected.  Hunter was hitting .298 for the 2014 season at the conclusion of that contest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2014_05_12_detmlb_balmlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det |title=Porcello Sets Down O's Before Heated Eighth |last=Beck |first=Jason| work=MLB.com |date=May 13, 2014 |access-date=May 13, 2014}}{{dead link|date=October 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Hunter finished the 2014 regular season with a .286 batting average, 17 home runs, and 83 RBIs.