Chris Cabrera Joins Bucs Baseball Staff

Chris Cabrera Joins Bucs Baseball Staff

FORT MYERS, Fla.- Florida SouthWestern Head Coach Ben Bizier has announced the addition of Chris Cabrera to his coaching staff for the 2021-2022 season. 

Cabrera reunites with Bizier, this time as a coach, after having played for the Bucs skipper when he was at Broward in 2016 and 2017. Cabrera then moved on to play two years at Barry University where he put up elite numbers for the Buccaneers, hitting .395 with 17 doubles, 9 home runs, and 76 RBIs in a season and a half. He finished his collegiate career as a graduate student at the University of Dayton where he started 37 games last season, hitting .288 with 6 home runs and 23 RBIs. 

Cabrera joins an FSW program coming off of back to back Suncoast Conference Championships in 2019 and 2021.  In 2021 the Bucs put together their best season in their young program history, going 44-16 while earning their first two wins at the FCSAA State Tournament and watching as four players were drafted in the top 13 rounds of the Major League Baseball Draft. Overall, six current or former players in total were signed to contracts with MLB organizations and 16 players from their 2021 squad signed to move onto the next level.