{"id":512672,"date":"2026-01-09T05:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/512672\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:39:15","slug":"edward-cabrera-agrees-to-1-year-contract-with-the-cubs-a-day-after-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/512672\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Cabrera agrees to 1-year contract with the Cubs a day after trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Edward Cabrera agreed to a $4.45 million, one-year contract with the Chicago Cubs on Thursday, a day after the right-hander was acquired in a trade with the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n

Cabrera, who turns 28 in April, had been eligible for salary arbitration.<\/p>\n

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Cabrera went 8-7 with a 3.53 ERA in a career-high 26 starts and 137 2\/3 innings last year. He came over in a deal<\/a> for outfielder Owen Caissie and infield prospects Cristian Hernandez and Edgardo De Leon.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-5 Cabrera made his major league debut with Miami in 2021. He is 25-29 with a 4.07 ERA in 87 career starts and two relief appearances.<\/p>\n

The Cubs also agreed to one-year contracts with left-hander Justin Steele worth $6,775,000 and right-hander Javier Assad worth $1.8 million.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Steele missed most of last year after he had elbow surgery<\/a> on April 18. He had his best season in 2023, when he went 16-5 with a 3.06 ERA in a career-high 30 starts.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Assad missed most of last season because of a left oblique injury<\/a>. He went 4-1 with a 3.65 ERA in seven starts and one relief appearance in 2025.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Edward Cabrera agreed to a $4.45 million, one-year contract with the Chicago Cubs on Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,13702,161,4914,159,393,1503,58,4,9677],"class_list":["post-512672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cristian-hernandez","tag-cubs","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-javier-assad","tag-justin-steele","tag-major-league-debut","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-owen-caissie"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115863536619341524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}