Genesis

Cabrera

Cabrera heads to Philadelphia to compete for a bullpen spot in spring training after being jettisoned from the Twins’ 40-man roster last month. The 29-year-old southpaw spent time with four different teams this past season, including the Mets, Cubs, Pirates and Twins, posting an underwhelming 6.54 ERA — 6.56 FIP — and 35/18 K/BB ratio across 42 2/3 innings over 42 2/3 innings this past season. He’s made 312 appearances in the big leagues dating back to 2019.

No real surprises as Minnesota cleans up its 40-man roster heading into the offseason. Miranda is a notable name considering his former prospect status, but he hasn’t made an impact at the highest level since the 2024 season when he appeared in a career-high 121 games.

Something happened to Justin Topa with two outs in the ninth, possibly a leg injury, so Cabrera stepped in. He finished off a walk of Carter Jensen and then retired Mike Yastrzemski to end the game. It’s the journeyman’s sixth career save. He had one for the Cardinals in each of 2019, ’20 and ’22 and two for the Blue Jays last year.

Cabrera joins Minnesota’s bullpen mix for Sunday’s game against the Tigers after signing a minor league contract with the Twins earlier this week. The 28-year-old lefty has made 24 appearances this season between the Pirates, Cubs and Mets.

The 28-year-old left-hander refused an outright assignment to Triple-A Indianapolis from the Pirates and opted to explore the free agent market instead. He’ll add extra bullpen depth for the Twins at the Triple-A level and it shouldn’t take him long to earn an opportunity at the big league level.

Cabrera did a decent job in nine appearances with the Pirates, posting a 4.91 ERA, 1.18 WHIP and a 7/1 K/BB ratio over 11 innings of work. The 28-year-old southpaw will continue to serve as extra bullpen depth at the Triple-A level for the time being.

Cabrera has been booted from Pittsburgh’s 40-man roster to make room for starter Johan Oviedo to return from the 60-day injured list for his season debut. The 28-year-old lefty wraps up his time with the Pirates after posting a serviceable 4.91 ERA across 11 innings (nine appearances) since late June.

The 28-year-old refused his outright assignment to Triple-A Iowa after he was designated for assignment by the Cubs earlier in the week. Cabrera has posted a troublesome 6.35 ERA, 1.35 WHIP and a 15/6 K/BB ratio over 17 innings between the Cubs and Mets this season. He’ll give Pirates’ skipper Don Kelly another option to deploy from the left side out of his bullpen.

Cabrera passed through waivers unclaimed after being designated for assignment over the weekend. The 28-year-old lefty compiled a calamitous 8.68 ERA across 9 1/3 innings (nine appearances) for the Cubs. He’ll presumably stick around as emergency organizational depth, but does have the ability to refuse the outright assignment and elect free agency.

Cabrera has been sent packing from Chicago’s relief mix just a couple weeks after latching on with the club as extra middle relief depth. The 28-year-old southpaw posted a disastrous 8.68 ERA across 9 1/3 innings (nine appearances). He figures to pass through waivers unclaimed and wind up back in the free agent pool.