{"id":475103,"date":"2025-12-27T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475103\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T14:16:19","slug":"two-teams-drop-out-of-trade-sweepstakes-for-marlins-edward-cabrera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475103\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teams drop out of trade sweepstakes for Marlins&#8217; Edward Cabrera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trade market for Marlins right-hander Edward Cabrera is thinning out after two teams dropped out of the running following other moves to address their pitching needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Astros and Orioles are no longer trade candidates for Cabrera, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/flasportsbuzz\/status\/2003907567840645231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Miami Herald\u2019s Barry Jackson reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Marlins are continuing to listen to offers for the 27-year-old Cabrera, but they do not want to sell short on any deal involving Cabrera, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38032623\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edward-cabrera-27-miami-marlins-112374940.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Cabrera pitching for the Miami Marlins.\" class=\"wp-image-38032623\"  \/>Edward Cabrera of the Miami Marlins pitches against the Mets during the second inning at loanDepot park on September 28, 2025 in Miami, Florida.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore and Houston are moving on after seeming to address needs within their own rotation in recent weeks as the MLB <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/25\/sports\/ranking-the-15-clear-winners-halfway-through-mlb-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offseason continues<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles made a trade with fellow AL East rival, the Rays, last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/19\/sports\/orioles-landing-shane-baz-from-rays-in-intriguing-al-east-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">landing starter Shane Baz<\/a> in exchange for outfielders Slater de Brun and Austin Overn, catcher Caden Bodine, pitcher Michael Forret and a competitive balance draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros had done the same when they added Mike Burrows from the Pirates in a three-team trade with Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In order to make the deal happen, the Astros sent two of their top prospects, outfielder Jacob Melton and right-hander Anderson Brito, to the Rays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera has three more seasons under team control and is coming off a season in which he pitched a career-high 137 \u2154 innings in 2025 for the Marlins. He will make just $3.75 million this season.<\/p>\n<p>There had been talk among some MLB clubs that the Marlins were asking too high a price for Cabrera, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6877218\/2025\/12\/09\/marlins-edward-cabrera-trade-talks-orioles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic reported earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cabrera posted a 3.53 ERA last season and had a career-best 150 strikeouts for the Marlins, but he was injured twice during 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was on the injured list at the beginning of the season with a blister on his right middle finger and returned in September due to a sprained right elbow, while also dealing with injury issues in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trade market for Marlins right-hander Edward Cabrera is thinning out after two teams dropped out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1276,2382,1286,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-475103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-houston-astros","10":"tag-miami-marlins","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115791960289583768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}