It’s been so long since there was a Triple Crown winner (and, frankly, all the SABRheads have so trashed batting average for OPS) that I don’t think many baseball fans understand the significance of what Cabrera did.
Plus, it wasn’t done by a Yankee, Met or Red Sox, so the Northeast media doesn’t really care.
Cabrera did it in grand fashion even compared to Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz tied Harmon Killebrew with 44 home runs but Yaz “only” had a .326 batting average and 121 runs batted in.