Cade Cavalli

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17+13 innings while hitting .202 with six home runs and 28 RBIs over 58 games. [5] After the 2018 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League. [6] As a sophomore in 2019, Cavalli pitched to a 5–3 record and a 3.28 ERA over 12 starts along with batting .319 with four home runs and 17 RBIs in 19 games. [7] [8] He missed three weeks during the season due to soreness. [9] [10] That summer, he played for the United States collegiate national baseball team. [11] [12] Cavalli entered his junior year in 2020 as a top prospect for the upcoming draft and was named the Big 12 Conference Preseason Pitcher of the Year. [13] [14] He made four starts in which he compiled a 4.18 ERA and 37 strikeouts over 23+23 innings before the college baseball season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professional career

The Washington Nationals selected Cavalli in the first round, with the 22nd overall selection, in the 2020 Major League Baseball draft and he signed for a $3 million signing bonus. [15] [16] He did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season caused by the pandemic. [17]

To begin the 2021 season, Cavalli was assigned to the Wilmington Blue Rocks of the High-A East with whom he made his professional debut. [18] After pitching to a 3–1 record and 1.77 ERA over 40+23 innings, he was promoted to the Harrisburg Senators of the Double-A Northeast on June 14. [19] That same month, Cavalli was selected to play in the All-Star Futures Game at Coors Field. [20] In mid-August, after starting 11 games and going 3–3 with a 2.79 ERA and eighty strikeouts over 58 innings with Harrisburg, Cavalli was promoted to the Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A East. [21] Over six starts with Rochester, he went 1–5 with 7.30 ERA. [22] His total of 175 strikeouts for the season between the three clubs led the minor leagues. [23] He returned to Rochester to begin the 2022 season. [24] He was selected to represent the Nationals at the 2022 All-Star Futures Game. [25]

On August 26, 2022, the Nationals selected Cavalli's contract for him to make his MLB debut that night at Nationals Park versus the Cincinnati Reds. [26] He pitched 4+13 innings and allowed seven runs, six hits, and two walks while striking out six and hitting three batters in a 7–3 loss. [27] During spring training in 2023, Cavalli sprained the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow in his pitching arm and will undergo Tommy John surgery, ending his 2023 season. [28]

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Cade Cavalli
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Cavalli with the Washington Nationals in 2022
Washington Nationals – No. 24
Pitcher
Born: (1998-08-14) August 14, 1998 (age 25)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
MLB debut
August 26, 2022, for the Washington Nationals