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Recent Yankees Pitcher Shares Love for Oswaldo Cabrera After Devastating Injury

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Jake Elman | Last updated May 17, 2025 8:29 AM ET

They may no longer wear the pinstripes together, but former New York Yankees reliever Ron Marinaccio has Oswaldo Cabrera’s back.

Now with the San Diego Padres, Marinaccio publicly supported Cabrera following the latter’s horrific injury earlier this week. Cabrera broke his ankle sliding into home plate against the Seattle Mariners on Monday night, and an ambulance subsequently took the fourth-year infielder off the field.

Cabrera shared an Instagram post on Thursday thanking the “thousands” who reached out, a list that evidently included Marinaccio.

“Love you brother you are built for this,” Marinaccio commented.

Marinaccio and Cabrera played together from 2022-24, with the former recording a 3.22 ERA and 137-61 K-BB ratio over 114.2 innings. The Yankees designated Marinaccio for assignment late last September, and he currently has a 5.71 ERA across 17.1 innings for the Padres’ Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas.

Cabrera hit the injured list Tuesday batting .243 with a home run, 11 RBI, and 0.5 bWAR through 34 games. Speaking with reporters ahead of Friday’s victory over the crosstown Mets, Yankees manager Aaron Boone expressed skepticism that Cabrera will play again this year.

“[We] probably won’t know until a week, 10 days in to where we get the doctors’ protocols and then the ramp up as you go,” Boone explained, via the New York Post.

Oswald Peraza started at third and went hitless in three at-bats on Friday night.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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