Although officially on the Injured List with a blister issue on his middle finger, I think everyone knew that Edward Cabrera had some other things to deal with while he was down. The hope was that, with some work on the side and a better-feeling finger, he could get back some of the movement and velocity he’d started to be missing.
Well, two starts back, and Cabrera has looked a little better by the eye test, even if the long ball has remained an issue. The good news is that his velocity is back up a couple clicks since the IL stint, so clearly something helped on that front. There have been other encouraging signs, including 10 whiffs on 83 pitches yesterday against the Rockies, including at least one whiff on all five of his pitches.
To that end, a great read at The Athletic from Sahadev Sharma on how the Cubs used the down time with Edward Cabrera to work on his mechanics in extremely detailed ways:
This is really interesting. I know we roll our eyes at "pitch lab" and such sometimes. It's a little quirky for sure. But the degree of detail that goes into throwing a baseball successfully in MLB is INSANE. Look at this quote from Tommy.“He tends to have his pelvis set a…
— Brendan Miller (@brendan_cubs) June 12, 2026There are a dozen things in that article discussing what the Cubs and Cabrera worked on, so I don’t even really want to call out just one to imply it was THE thing. There are tons of things, from the mechanics of the arm to the legs to the side work to the training and on and on. Things you wouldn’t normally be able to drill down on with a pitcher during the season.
OK, but I will call out one thing that really stood out to me – not because it was THE change for Cabrera, but because I just found it particularly interesting:
‘For Cabrera, the main issue manifested in a lower arm angle. Sometimes, this can mean compensation for an injury. The Cubs were certain that wasn’t the case.
“Usually when you see guys’ arm slot drop, a lot of times there’s a shoulder impingement and they don’t want to get into that so they work (down) to create space,” Hottovy said. “His is much more about an inefficiency with the lower body that was creating a rotational move with the upper body.”
How exactly did these mechanical issues develop?
One theory was that Cabrera didn’t think his stuff was moving like it should — he was right — but instead of fixing the mechanical issue, he tried forcing the movement.’
Again, it would be tougher to make those fixes on the fly between starts with a guy, so maybe the blister will have proven, long-term, to be an assist. More than that, I can’t help but wonder what happens if a guy keeps going down that route – not fixing the mechanical issues and instead changing his arm slot/path to try to force his usual movement? It’s not hard to imagine injury issues (ones more serious than a blister) popping up. So maybe the blister inadvertently helped there, too.
For now, we’ll need to see much more out of Edward Cabrera to call any changes (much less this whole season) a success. But at least there have been some positive strides, coming on the heels of some positive work.
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