The rebuilding Detroit Tigers are sitting on the sidelines as teams make pitches for Japanese sensation Shohei Ohtani or prepare bids for reigning National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton.

But a decade ago, with one of the game's brightest young talents on the market, the Tigers made a franchise-altering move.

Detroit sent six players to the Florida Marlins for Miguel Cabrera and pitcher Dontrelle Willis.

Most of the other seven players involved in the trade quickly faded into obscurity, but in his ten seasons with the Tigers, Cabrera has made seven All-Star games, won two MVP awards (and finished in the top-five in balloting three other times) and been a part of four playoff appearances.

Since joining the Tigers, he's hit .319 with an on-base percentage just a hair under .400, while averaging 32 home runs, 36 doubles and 109 RBIs per season.

He struggled in 2017 and his burdensome contract has the potential to weigh on the Tigers' rebuilding process. But there's little doubt that Cabrera is on a path for Cooperstown, and he'll enter with an Old English D embossed on his plaque.

But will he end his career as a Tiger? If Cabrera had a strong 2017 season, the 10-year anniversary might be filled with speculation about where he might be going next. Instead, for the moment he is virtually untradeable.

What happened to the rest of the players in the deal?

For some, you don't have to look far.

Andrew Miller has been a thorn in the Tigers' side since rejuvenating his career as a reliever for the Cleveland Indians. Cameron Maybin returned to play for the Tigers a year ago. Mike Rabelo is currently a manager in the Tigers' system.

Here's a tally of everyone involved:

THE MARLINS RECEIVED

Dallas Trahern: A promising sinker-ball pitching prospect, the 2004 Tigers' draft pick ran into injury trouble in his second year in the Marlins' system. He made a comeback attempt in 2011 but could never recover his previous success.

Burke Badenhop: A Perrysburg, Ohio, native, Badenhop was drafted out of Bowling Green by the Tigers in 2005. He ultimately became a fairly effective journeyman reliever and was traded three more times after this deal.

Frankie De La Cruz: The Dominican right-hander bounced around the minor leagues for several years, getting brief cups of coffee with four different big-league clubs, but never enjoying sustained success.

Cameron Maybin: He's been traded four times since this trade, but he's still in the big leagues. Although perhaps he never met the expectations of his first-round status, Maybin's career came full circle when he returned to the Tigers in 2016 and made an important contribution at the top of the lineup.

Andrew Miller: Don't give up on good arms. Miller might have had a decent career as a middling starter. Instead, he transformed himself into a dominant reliever. Some would even say that he changed the game in the process.

Mike Rabelo: The catcher lasted only a couple of years in the Marlins system before he was released and re-signed with the Tigers. When his playing career ended, he moved into coaching and now managing in the Tigers' minor-league system. He'll be at the helm at Class A (Advanced) Lakeland in 2018.

THE TIGERS RECEIVED:

Dontrelle Willis: Willis was coming off the worst season of a career that had started with so much promise when he was traded to the Tigers. Unfortunately, there was no turnaround in sight. Willis went 4-15 with a 6.15 ERA in 199 innings for the Tigers, Diamondbacks and Reds in 2008-2011 before washing out of baseball.

Miguel Cabrera: Who? Never heard of him. Seriously, Cabrera was already a star by the time he was sent to the Tigers as a 24-year-old. And by virtue of beginning his big-league career at the tender of age of 20, he was about to make some serious money. That's why the Marlins were willing to deal him, and the more free-spending Tigers could pull off the deal.