{"id":394542,"date":"2026-01-07T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394542\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:33:07","slug":"cubs-close-to-landing-edward-cabrera-in-trade-with-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394542\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs close to landing Edward Cabrera in trade with Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> are finalizing a trade to acquire pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/edward-cabrera\/920423\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/edward-cabrera\/920423\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Cabrera<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a>, sources confirmed to ESPN&#8217;s Jesse Rogers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was not clear what Miami would receive in the trade, which was first reported Wednesday by Bleacher Nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cabrera would improve a Chicago rotation that includes veterans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/matthew-boyd\/621603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/matthew-boyd\/621603\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Boyd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jameson-taillon\/548151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jameson-taillon\/548151\" target=\"_blank\">Jameson Taillon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shota-imanaga\/907357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shota-imanaga\/907357\" target=\"_blank\">Shota Imanaga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said last month that the organization was &#8220;in the market&#8221; to acquire pitching help &#8212; both in the rotation and the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The hard-throwing Cabrera is coming off the best season of his career in 2025, when he went 8-7 with a 3.53 ERA with career-highs of 150 strikeouts over 137\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cabrera, who turns 28 in April, also remains under contractual control for three more seasons before being eligible for free agency after the 2028 season. The right-hander has been plagued by injuries throughout his career, however, appearing in just 89 games over parts of five seasons with the Marlins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs are finalizing a trade to acquire pitcher Edward Cabrera from the Miami Marlins, sources confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,58010,82,507],"class_list":["post-394542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-overdrive","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}