Daniel Cabrera

Daniel Alberto Cabrera Cruz is a Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who pitches for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is one of the taller pitchers in the league, standing at 6' 9" and 270 lb. Cabrera was signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur in 1999. He did not become a player in the Orioles minor league system until 2000, at the age of 19. For his first two seasons as a minor leaguer, Cabrera played in the rookie leagues; first with the Gulf Coast Orioles, then with Bluefield. He posted a 5.49 ERA his first season and a 3.28 ERA his second. When he was 22, Cabrera became... a part of the Orioles Single-A ballclub, the Delmarva Shorebirds. His record was 5–9 with a 4.24 ERA. By the end of his third season in the minors, Cabrera was racking up the numbers one would expect from a power pitcher. He recorded 105 strikeouts over 101 innings of work with the rookie leagues between 2001 and 2002, and added 120 strikeouts over 125.1 innings in Single-A Delmarva the following season. He was promoted to Double-A Bowie before the 2004 season.
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