{"id":404305,"date":"2026-01-13T08:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404305\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:17:07","slug":"phillies-sign-genesis-cabrera-trevor-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/404305\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Sign Genesis Cabrera, Trevor Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phillies agreed to a minor league deal with lefty reliever\u00a0G\u00e9nesis Cabrera<\/a>. The agreement was first reported last month by Mike Rodriguez<\/a> but didn\u2019t appear on the MiLB.com transaction log<\/a> until this week. The log also indicates that the Phils have also added righty relievers Trevor Richards<\/a> and Jonathan Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, infielder\u00a0Christian Cairo<\/a>, and catcher\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Pinto<\/a> in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Cabrera is the likeliest of the group to factor into the early-season plans. The southpaw has pitched in the big leagues in seven straight seasons. He suited up for four different teams last year but struggled to a 6.54 ERA across 40 combined appearances. Cabrera had a mediocre strikeout rate for a second straight season and allowed far too many home runs, which has become an increasing problem.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old Cabrera sits in the 95-96 MPH range with both his sinker and four-seam fastball. The velocity is down from when he was working 97-98 and pitched his way into high-leverage spots with the Cardinals earlier in his career. It\u2019s still above-average for a lefty, though, and Cabrera\u2019s cutter and curveball have each been successful pitches in the past. He backfills their lefty relief depth after the Matt Strahm<\/a> trade but remains no higher than third on the organizational depth chart behind Jos\u00e9 Alvarado<\/a> and\u00a0Tanner Banks<\/a>. Philadelphia also has\u00a0Kyle Backhus<\/a>, a soft-tossing grounder specialist, on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

Richards, 33 in May, made five combined appearances last year between the Royals and Diamondbacks. The changeup specialist has pitched parts of eight seasons and topped 60 innings each year from 2021-24. Richards is coming off a 5.19 ERA despite solid strikeout and walk numbers between three Triple-A clubs. He\u2019ll compete for a swing role in Spring Training.<\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez was a high-leverage arm with the Rangers early in his career who struggled between 2023-24. The 29-year-old sinkerballer signed a minor league deal with Tampa Bay last winter. He was injured for most of the season and limited to 12 Triple-A appearances, in which he tossed 12 innings of three-run ball. He averaged 95.3 MPH on his fastball, down almost three ticks relative to his first few seasons in Texas.<\/p>\n

Pinto is a veteran depth catcher who hit .231\/.263\/.404 over 83 games with the Rays from 2022-24. He spent last season in the minors, striking out at a 31% rate while batting .259\/.309\/.498 in 64 contests with Arizona and Toronto affiliates. Cairo, a slick-fielding utility player, was a Rule 5 pick by the Braves last offseason. He didn\u2019t make the team and was offered back to the Guardians in Spring Training. He hit .237\/.338\/.331 across 416 Triple-A plate appearances and qualified for minor league free agency. He\u2019s still looking to make his MLB debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies agreed to a minor league deal with lefty reliever\u00a0G\u00e9nesis Cabrera. The agreement was first reported last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[194958,194959,194960,363,194961,99,18518],"class_list":{"0":"post-404305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-christian-cairo","9":"tag-genesis-cabrera","10":"tag-jonathan-hernandez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-rene-pinto","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-trevor-richards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}