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Edward Cabrera is a fantasy baseball waiver wire pickup for Week 23 of the 2021 MLB season. Consider adding the SP if he's a free agent in your leagues.
BALLER MOVE: Add in leagues of 12+ teams
ROSTERED IN: 29% of leagues
ANALYSIS: One of Miami's highly touted pitching prospects, Cabrera put up decent but not great numbers in his major league debut on Wednesday, where he allowed three runs on four hits and three walks while striking out two over 6 1/3 innings of work against Washington. While he didn't show much in the way of strikeouts in his debut, he's shown the potential to be a strikeout machine over his last two seasons in the minors where he's recorded a 32.9 percent strikeout rate over a combined 158 innings of work.
He'll open things up with what should be a nice matchup against a struggling Mets squad that is slashing .221/.287/.338 and averaging 2.6 runs per game over their last 10 games. There won't be any clear benefit for Cabrera pitching on the road, as New York is putting up near identical numbers on the road and at home this season. However he should see a slight boost in value as the Mets are hitting worse against right-handers (.231/.307/.378) than against left-handers this season (.241/.321/.375).
Cabrera will then face off against another struggling team in the Phillies, as not only have they lost their slugging first baseman Rhys Hoskins for the rest of the year, but they are also slashing .194/.289/.364 and averaging 3.9 runs per game over their last 10 games. Much like with the Mets, the Phillies are putting up nearly identical numbers on the road and at home this year. But also like the Mets, Philadelphia is hitting significantly worse against right-handed pitching this year (.231/.310/.394) than against lefties (.250/.329/.418).
While his first outing wasn't necessarily the kind of performance managers were hoping for, it looks like Cabrera could be in line to end up as a nice option this week. Going up against a pair of struggling offenses that have had troubles against right-handed pitching this season, it seems like a perfect week to start Cabrera, and managers could be rewarded greatly if he can show off the strikeout potential he has flashed in the minors.
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