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Edward Cabrera
B/T R/R · 6' 5" · 217 lb · born Santiago, Dominican Republic · age 28 · played P 19 · MLB debut 2021-08-25
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-03): 1 G · 1.0 IP · 9.00 ERA · 2 SO · 1.00 WHIP
Injured 15-Day · Right middle finger blister. (roster status, as of )
357 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
A 6'5" right-hander out of Santiago in the Dominican Republic, Cabrera has struck out 543 hitters in 103 big-league appearances — better than five per outing, which is the one thing his line asks you to remember.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $4.45M
- Tax hit
- $4.45M
- Service time
- 3 yr 147 d
- Options left
- 0 / 3
The deal 1 year $4.5M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$4.45M (26) · agent CAA
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Arb 4 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago Cubs.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $4.45M
- Guaranteed
- $4.45M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on Edward Cabrera
The scouting press, in their own words
Cubs baseball president Jed Hoyer talks here about how and why he landed Clay Holmes. In full pod he talks Cabrera, Steele, Brown, Brewers, PCA, Skubal, more. We talk NYY offense YouTube: https://t.co/WQRmVFECHG Apple: https://t.co/VttXfkSekR Spotify: https://t.co/zyucR067WZ https://t.co/hwRidHgf4h
Umpire favor
-0.1 net runs over 14 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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