CHICAGO (AP) — Edward Cabrera agreed to a $4.45 million, one-year contract with the Chicago Cubs on Thursday, a day after the right-hander was acquired in a trade with the Miami Marlins.
Cabrera, who turns 28 in April, had been eligible for salary arbitration.
Cabrera went 8-7 with a 3.53 ERA in a career-high 26 starts and 137 2/3 innings last year. He came over in a deal for outfielder Owen Caissie and infield prospects Cristian Hernandez and Edgardo De Leon.
The 6-foot-5 Cabrera made his major league debut with Miami in 2021. He is 25-29 with a 4.07 ERA in 87 career starts and two relief appearances.
The Cubs also agreed to one-year contracts with left-hander Justin Steele worth $6,775,000 and right-hander Javier Assad worth $1.8 million. Assad's deal includes a $3.3 million option for 2027.
The 30-year-old Steele missed most of last year after he had elbow surgery on April 18. He had his best season in 2023, when he went 16-5 with a 3.06 ERA in a career-high 30 starts.
The 28-year-old Assad missed most of last season because of a left oblique injury. He went 4-1 with a 3.65 ERA in seven starts and one relief appearance in 2025.
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FILE - Miami Marlins starting pitcher Edward Cabrera follows through on a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Sept. 28, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
Buffalo (12-5) at Jacksonville (13-4)
Sunday, 1 p.m. EST, CBS.
BetMGM NFL odds: Bills by 1.
Against the spread: Bills 8-9, Jaguars 12-5.
Series record: Tied 10-10, with Jacksonville winning both postseason matchups.
Last meeting: Bills beat the Jaguars 47-10 in Buffalo on Sept. 23, 2024.
Last week: Jaguars beat the Titans 41-7; Bills beat the Jets 35-8.
Bills offense: overall (4), rush (1), pass (15), scoring (T4).
Bills defense: overall (7), rush (28), pass (1), scoring (12).
Jaguars offense: overall (11), rush (20), pass (12), scoring (6).
Jaguars defense: overall (11), rush (1), pass (21), scoring (8).
Turnover differential: Bills plus-1; Jaguars plus-13.
QB Josh Allen enters the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season and with a 7-6 record, with four of those losses on the road. He’s completed 65.7% of his passes, averaging 258 yards a game, with 33 touchdowns (25 passing, seven rushing, one receiving). He also has just four interceptions and two lost fumbles.
RB Travis Etienne could be playing his final game in Jacksonville. The fifth-year pro is a pending free agent, and although he has a career-high 13 total touchdowns, he hasn’t topped 100 yards rushing since late September. Going against a defense that has allowed more than 150 yards on the ground seven times gives him a chance to shine.
The NFL’s top rushing attack against the league’s best run defense. Buffalo’s James Cook led the league with 1,621 yards rushing, averaging 95.3 a game, and faces a unit that didn’t allow any player to reach 75 yards on the ground. The Jaguars topped the league in run defense for the first time in franchise history, allowing 85.6 yards a game. They became the third team since 2000 to not allow a 75-yard rusher in any game.
Bills: Jordan Phillips won’t play after joining fellow DT Ed Oliver (torn bicep/knee) on injured reserve. Starting LB Terrel Bernard (calf) and rookie CB Maxwell Hairston (ankle) have been ruled out. K Matt Prater is questionable after aggravating a quadriceps injury to his kicking leg. LB Shaq Thompson (neck) backup RB Ty Johnson (ankle) and WR Joshua Palmer (ankle) bear monitoring in being listed as questionable.
Jaguars: RG Patrick Mekari (back) and LT Cole Van Lanen (knee) are expected back. Mekari missed the past two weeks, and Van Lanen injured his right knee in the fourth quarter against Tennessee and sat out practice Wednesday.
The series is tied at 10, although Jacksonville has won three of the past four, including a wild-card game in the 2017 season that featured Jaguars QB Blake Bortles finishing with more rushing yards (88) than passing yards (87).
The Bills are 7-7 in playoff games in nine seasons under coach Sean McDermott, with five of those losses coming on the road. ... The Bills have dropped eight consecutive road games in the playoffs, all of them since a win at Miami in the 1992 AFC championship game. The road skid is the NFL’s second-longest, active postseason run behind Detroit’s 12 in a row. ... Buffalo went 6-5 when trailing at halftime and twice overcame double-digit, fourth-quarter deficits. ... Allen was sacked a career-high 40 times and went 3-5 in games he committed a turnover. Playoffs included, he’s 48-35 in games in which he commits a turnover, and 46-10 in turnover-free outings. ... Cook is Buffalo’s first player to win the NFL rushing title since O.J. Simpson did so four times, the last one coming in 1976. ... Khalil Shakir led Buffalo with 719 yards receiving, but the Bills had 11 players with at least one TD catch, led by TE Dalton Kincaid’s five. ... LT Dion Dawkins, S Jordan Poyer, CB Tre’Davious White, LB Matt Milano and LS Reid Ferguson all holdovers from the Buffalo team that lost at Jacksonville in the 2017 wild-card game. … The Jaguars are averaging 33.6 points during their eight-game winning streak, the franchise's longest since 1999. ... They are 4-1 in home playoff games. … Jacksonville is the third team in NFL history to win 13 or more games a season after losing 13 or more, joining a list that includes 2025 New England and 1999 Indianapolis. … Jacksonville's Liam Coen is the seventh head coach in NFL history to win 13 or more games in his first season. ... QB Trevor Lawrence joined Allen, Arizona’s Kyler Murray and Carolina’s Cam Newton as the only players in NFL history with 25 or more TD passes and nine of more TD runs the same season. Lawrence has 24 total TDs (19 passing and five rushing) during the team's win streak. ... LB Devin Lloyd finished second in the NFL with six takeaways, including five interceptions. ... CB Antonio Johnson had a career-high nine pass defenses in the regular season. ... Lloyd and Johnson were only players in the NFL with five or more INTs and at least one sack.
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Jacksonville Jaguars place-kicker Cam Little (39) celebrates his 67-yard field goal during the first half of an NFL football game against the Tennessee Titans, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Alec Anderson (70) spikes the ball after running back Ty Johnson scored a touchdown against the New York Jets in the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) runs the ball past Tennessee Titans outside linebackers Truman Jones (56) and Jaylen Harrell, far right, during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Buffalo Bills tight end Dawson Knox (88) celebrates after scoring a touchdown against the New York Jets in the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
