The Yankees, Mets, and Cubs are eyeing Marlins ace Edward Cabrera. Will Miami trade their rising star to bolster their own rotation or future?
The Miami Marlins are a team on the rise, and teams on the rise generally don’t trade their best players.
At the same time, offers are usually worth listening to, and the New York Yankees are reportedly interested in Marlins starting pitcher Edward Cabrera, according to The Athletic's Chris Kirschner and Ken Rosenthal.
Additionally, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald has reported that the New York Mets and the Chicago Cubs have also expressed interest in Cabrera, who will be 28 in April.
Now entering his prime, Cabrera was Miami’s best starting pitcher last season, ending the year 8-7 with a 3.53 ERA in 26 starts.
The Yankees need pitching help, with former Cy Young winner Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodon — who has placed in the top six in Cy Young voting three times — both slated to miss Opening Day with injuries.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has said he likes the team’s rotation overall, so it’s hard to know how much the Yankees would be willing to give up for another starter.
“Ultimately, we are vulnerable early on, because of Rodon’s surgery and Cole’s surgery,” Cashman told Forbes on Dec. 5, 2025. Cashman said the Yankees re-signed lefty Ryan Yarbrough to another one-year contract ($2.5 million) in mid-November as the front office continues working on how the team can, as he put it, "protect ourselves in the starting rotation" because the ranks of Yanks starters are never all healthy.
"But when they’re all healthy, they’re firing on all cylinders," Cashman said. "It’s a great rotation."
Cabrera isn’t the only Marlins starter the Yankees have been linked to.
Yankees insider Pete Caldera of NewJersey.com predicted that 2022 Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantra would end up in pinstripes.
“Will Warren and pitching prospect Bryce Cunningham are part of a late July trade package to Miami in exchange for Marlins starter Sandy Alcantara,” Caldera wrote in his Jan. 2 predictions column.
But Barry Jackson's reporting for the Herald indicated that if the Marlins are going to deal one of their starters, Cabrera would be the one most likely to go.
Still, Jackson doesn’t appear to be willing to bet that Cabrera would be moved.
“Marlins will listen on (Edward) Cabrera, but 2 suitors (Houston, Baltimore) are no longer involved and (the) Marlins don’t want to sell short on him. They want to keep Alcantara (would have to take an incredible offer to even consider a deal), per source,” Jackson posted on X in late December.