The Chicago Cubs have acquired right-handed beginning pitcher Edward Cabrera in a commerce with the Miami Marlins. High outfield prospect Owen Caissie, infielder Cristian Hernandez and infielder Edgardo De Leon are headed again to Miami.
Cabrera, who turns 28 in April, is coming off a robust 2025 marketing campaign for the Marlins.
The numbers above had been good for an ERA+ of 125, which he backed up with a career-best FIP of three.83. As effectively, Cabrera’s 137 ⅔ innings this previous season had been a profession excessive. For his profession, he is put up an ERA+ of 108 and a WAR of seven.1 throughout elements of 5 MLB seasons.
Edward Cabrera commerce grades: Cubs nail deal for frontline starter, Marlins get ‘B’ in comparison with prior returns
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CBS Sports activities had beforehand ranked Cabrera as one of many prime potential commerce candidates of the 2025-26 offseason. That is not solely due to his robust top-line leads to his most up-to-date marketing campaign, but in addition due to his arm expertise. In 2025, Cabrera ranked within the 87th percentile amongst major-league pitchers with a median fastball velocity of 96.9 mph. Examine him to starters solely and he would’ve positioned even increased. He was additionally across the seventy fifth percentile amongst all pitchers in strikeout share, chase charge, whiff charge, and groundball share. Cabrera boasts a five-pitch repertoire and final season he earned higher than a 40% swinging-strike charge on his curve and his slider. As effectively, Cabrera’s excessive commerce worth displays the truth that he isn’t eligible without cost company till after the 2028 season.
Over his profession, Cabrera has handled numerous arm issues, together with stints on the injured record for elbow tendinitis, a shoulder impingement, and simply final September an elbow pressure. Nevertheless, the Cubs are little question hoping that Cabrera will have the ability to keep away from any main arm maladies on their watch and construct off his career-high 26 begins final season. If certainly he’s wholesome and sturdy shifting ahead, then Cabrera guarantees frontline upside within the Cubs rotation.
Cabrera would be part of a Cubs rotation that already has lefties Matthew Boyd and Shota Imanaga together with righties Jameson Taillon and Cade Horton, the latter coming off a really promising rookie season. Colin Rea provides depth and lefty Justin Steele will probably be coming back from Tommy John surgical procedure sooner or later.
Within the return, Caissie is the headliner, a prime outfield prospect who had a brief, underwhelming MLB debut in 2025. At simply 23, his robust exit velocities ought to make up for his excessive swing-and-miss charges. Hernandez is a 22-year-old infielder who tapped out at Excessive-A final yr and De Leon is an 18-year-old who spent 2025 in rookie ball.
