Brewers right-hander Freddy Peralta is not a lock to be traded but plenty of other clubs are interested. He’s already been connected to the Astros, Giants, Mets, Orioles, Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers and Braves this offseason. Today, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic writes that the Padres have checked in with the Brewers while Katie Woo of The Athletic reports that the Dodgers remain engaged.
The widespread appeal is understandable as Peralta is both good and cheap. Dating back to the start of 2021, he has given the Brewers 738 1/3 innings, allowing 3.30 earned runs per nine. His 9% walk rate in that time was close to league average while he struck out a big 29.6% of batters faced. He just wrapped up a 2025 season in which he posted a 2.70 ERA with a 28.2% strikeout rate and 9.1% walk rate.
Milwaukee signed Peralta back in 2020, before he was established as a viable big league starter. That deal turned into a massive win for the Brewers, as it was only a $15.5MM guarantee over five years. It also included $8MM club options for 2025 and 2026. By the time those options rolled around, they were obvious bargains and picked up without hesitation.
That salary on a one-year commitment is very appealing for all teams. The top starting pitchers often make in the range of $25MM to $45MM annually on multi-year deals. This offseason has seen Dylan Cease, Ranger Suárez and Michael King land average annual values in the $25-30MM range. In short, Peralta’s deal is a steal.
That makes him very appealing to all clubs. For big spending teams, Peralta is a theoretical rotation upgrade without the big contract. Most of the top spenders are also facing huge tax bills, in many cases more than doubling the cost of signing any free agent. For teams with payroll crunches, it’s also obviously helpful to be able to get a top arm without a big price.
It also makes Peralta valuable for the Brewers, who are never big spenders. But the fact that Peralta is nearing free agency puts them in a tricky spot. Their low payrolls usually make it hard for them to sign their players for the long term, which can lead to them being traded as free agency nears.
In recent years, players like Corbin Burnes and Josh Hader have been traded as their respective windows of control were shrinking. But with Willy Adames, Milwaukee decided to hold onto him until he hit the open market. They collected compensation in the form of an extra draft pick after he rejected a qualifying offer and then signed with the Giants.
Peralta could go either way. President of baseball operations Matt Arnold downplayed the trade possibility back in November but the club is also reportedly concerned about its payroll. Earlier this month, they were one of nine teams who terminated broadcast deals with Main Street Sports. It’s possible they could negotiate a new deal or pivot to having MLB handle things but they will almost certainly bring in less broadcast revenue in 2026 compared to the year prior.
Trading Peralta wouldn’t save the Brewers a ton of money but it would allow them to theoretically bolster other areas of the roster without having to spend on free agents. However, no offer has compelled them to pull the trigger yet, with pitchers and catchers set to report to spring training in less than three weeks.
The Padres make a lot of sense as a landing spot for Peralta. Rotation depth was a concern for them throughout 2025 and then they lost Cease and King to free agency at season’s end. Shortly thereafter, Yu Darvish underwent UCL surgery, ruling him out for the entire 2026 campaign.
They have since brought back King but further bolstering the rotation would make sense. Currently, they project to have King, Nick Pivetta and Joe Musgrove in three spots, followed by a cluster of potential depth options including Randy Vásquez, JP Sears, Kyle Hart and Matt Waldron.
Even within that group, there are notable questions. King is coming off a season impacted by injuries. Pivetta has been in some trade rumors due to his back-loaded contract. Musgrove will be coming back from missing 2025 recovering from Tommy John surgery. Vásquez had a nice 3.84 ERA last year but just a 13.7% strikeout rate. Sears, Waldron and Hart all had poor seasons.
Adding to that group makes sense but the Friars have seemingly been walking a financial tightrope for a few years. Their payroll peaked in 2023 but the offseasons since then have seen them trying to work around an apparent lack of spending capacity. That seemed to motivate the Juan Soto trade two offseasons ago. Last winter, they were able to sign Pivetta but with an unusual structure. It was $55MM over four years but with just a $3MM signing bonus and $1MM signing bonus in the first year.
RosterResource projects the payroll for $220MM next year, which is a bit above last year’s spending. The competitive balance tax figure is pegged at $262MM, above the base threshold of $244MM. The Padres reset their tax status in 2024 but paid the tax last year. That means they would be second-time payors in 2026, which leads to a 30% base tax rate. Going above $264MM would increase the tax rate to 42% on spending beyond that line.
That presumably makes the Padres at least somewhat unwilling to spend big on a free agent like Framber Valdez, Zac Gallen or Chris Bassitt. Rosenthal writes that their preferred spending range is $8MM to $12MM and he floats Nick Martinez, Lucas Giolito and Justin Verlander as guys who could theoretically fall to that range.
Though Peralta’s $8MM salary would undoubtedly be appealing, especially if they move Pivetta and his $19MM salary in 2026, the Brewers would want something notable in return. Subtracting from the big league roster would be counterproductive and the Padres have also traded away a large number of prospects in recent years, including sending top prospect Leo De Vries to the Athletics in last year’s Mason Miller deal. Lining up on a deal with Milwaukee may be tricky.
Turning to the Dodgers, Woo notes that their interest presumably indicates at least some level of concern from the club in relation to the current rotation mix. The Dodgers have a great starting group on paper but questions with most of the individuals. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is only guy still on the roster who topped 91 innings pitched last year. Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, Emmet Sheehan, Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki all came in under that line due to various different health situations. The Dodgers presumably don’t expect the whole group to stay healthy for 2026.
They also seem better positioned than the Padres to offer the Brewers the kind of young, controllable pitching they would probably want in return. Sheehan and Sasaki are both still in their pre-arb years. The same is true of guys like Ben Casparius, River Ryan, Kyle Hurt, Justin Wrobleski, Gavin Stone, Landon Knack and others.
Woo also floats outfielder Ryan Ward as a possibility, with the recent Kyle Tucker signing blocking his path. She writes that the Dodgers were considering a platoon of the lefty-swinging Ward and righty Alex Call before landing Tucker, so Ward may now be expendable. The Brewers subtracted from their outfield this offseason when they traded Isaac Collins to the Royals alongside Nick Mears to acquire left-hander Ángel Zerpa. They still have a decent group including Christian Yelich, Sal Frelick, Jackson Chourio, Garrett Mitchell, Blake Perkins and others.
Whether the Brewers can be compelled to complete a trade remains to be seen. Without Peralta, their rotation would still consist of a pretty good group including Brandon Woodruff, Jacob Misiorowski, Quinn Priester, Chad Patrick, Logan Henderson, Robert Gasser, Tobias Myers and others, plus whatever they can get in return in the Peralta trade. But they could also just hold Peralta to make another run in 2026. If Peralta is healthy a season from now, he would be a lock to reject a QO, netting the Brewers a compensatory draft pick if he signs elsewhere.
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Yes ,please Friars trade for this rental! 🙏
Agreed go to El Padres
Padres lack the prospects to trade for Freddy . California dreaming
Sure pal 🤣
Tbh, idk what Milly Wah Kay wants. But the capital exists.
BTV says Kruz Schoolcraft, Kash Mayfield, Humberto Cruz and one of Jorge Quintana or Kale Fountain gets it done. Not sure if that’s a fit from a “filling needs” standpoint for MIL tho.
And that seems like an overpay, the type I’d rather keep. I have been known to be a prospecthugger, though…
Hey @gwynning the Padres are “walking a financial tightrope” in case you haven’t heard that before. The writers never mention padres finances in any article. (Sarcasm)
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This this the same bs us Yankees fans have to deal with on a daily basis, Gwynn. Luckily actual GMs don’t view farm systems the same way as fans.
Then every now and again you get the Mickey Koke’s of the world who think Preller can trade Nick Pivetta for prospects and then flip those exact same prospects for Freddy Peralta, regardless of the fact that Nick Pivetta will make $11m more than Peralta, has player options after 2026 whereas Peralta is a straight free agent and cannot be QO’d whereas Peralta can.
Salzilla – GMs don’t necessarily see farm systems the same way other GMs do.
Not sure what you meant to say at the end of your paragraph, but Peralta can be QO’d next off-season if traded this off-season.
I think Wormy meant Pivetta can’t be QO’d, hindering his value in a very minimal manner.
I now understand that my phrasing in the last commwnt was weird. But Nick Pivetta received a QO from Boston a year ago which means he can never receive one again. Peralta has never received one so he can, assuming he is not traded after opening day.
@Gwynning I would say more than just “very minimal.”
It’s a factor, not a deal breaker.
Thats way too pitcher heavy… if the Brewers were interested in that a deal wouldve already been done.. other teams match up better in a deal…
I’m a bigger prospecthugger than anyone. The other guy said the Padres lack the prospects to get it done, so I put together a prospect package that theoretically would get it done. Starting pitching is in high demand and considering the Brewers are expected to contend in 2026 and trading Freddy Peralta would hurt those chances they are not in “Just take anything!” mode.
If you want position players only, Jorge Quintana, Kale Fountain, Deivid Coronil, Tirso Ornelas, Ryan Wideman and Kavares Tears should be enough. Only Tirso Ornelas is currently on the 40-man roster and except for him and Kavares Tears none of them are even Rule 5 eligible until after the 2028 season ends.
like you said, the Brewers are expected to contend in 2026, so they would want major league ready prospects. none of the prospects you proposed is anywhere close to being major league ready.
I already stipulated that I went based on a pure “value-for-value” approach.
They have DeVries, but that seems unlikely for a rental.
who has De Vries?
The Athletics are trying to trade for Freddy Peralta! Good to see a quick turnaround on the rebuild!
Sounds like a a lot of prospects either way for a one year rental…
BTV is always a joke. Why would you even look there? Peralta is a rental. It will not take even close to that much to get a trade done.
That may be true… but i would expect a deal like the Burnes trade…. two prospects that are close and one they probably could be on the roster right away… prospects 3 to 4 years away dont have as much appeal to.the crew
INF Joey Ortiz (MLB Pipeline’s No. 63 prospect), LHP DL Hall, 2024 Competitive Balance Round A pick (No. 34 overall).
Skip- and that was for a Cy Younger who was a top 6-7 SP over the previous 3-4 years. Peralta is not that. I’d say scratch the pick and lessen the “fee” (Top 80-90ish guy and another deeper one the Brew scouts like) and there’s your roundabout trade ballpark for a non-Cy rental arm. Maybe somebody overpays due to market fluctuation… but I don’t think we’ll see him traded. Milwaukee would seem to want more than what is being bandied about, and nobody has blinked. (All this is assumed and there’s nothing wrong with Milwaukee’s assumed position.)
I wonder if Peralta’s contract is appealing…
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I don’t see how this one works out for SD. The brewers have a top prospect at C and Contreras. That makes Salas an unlikely want.
When the Crew have moved guys like this in the past they’ve done it for young controllable pieces. The pads best prospects are pitchers who are years off.
Can’t imagine another team doesn’t put together a more compelling package for the Brewers unless the Pads severely overpay in young P talent.
Salas isn’t going anywhere for 1 year of anybody.
Maybe so but in any event the Brewers aren’t likely to even want him. Have to have something that they do & I don’t know what that would be from SD.
SD doesn’t have a young controllable ML starter. They don’t have any extra young controllable position players & they don’t have any top prospects near the bigs.
They have very good countable relievers. That can help the brewers. If the padres had a good controlled starter they wouldn’t be trading him for a rental.
So reliever/s – prospects is what the deal would be with the padres. Brewers get some mlb help now and later which the brewers look for.
4 years of estrada is worth 1 of peralta. that’s probably the padres best movable piece besides salas.
not sure if that’s a fit for milwaukee, but a third team could be involved.
they could also move other pieces like pivetta to a third team. wouldn’t really help the padres much to replace pivetta with peralta other than to save money. but i could see that happening.
Yeah, the padres have relievers for sure. The Brewers have never been the team to pay for one though.
I can’t imagine they deal Peralta to SD if LAD offers a guy like Sheehan + back. Or they’re offered a cheap controllable prospect with power upside. Too many teams will be in on him & I can’t imagine a more appealing package today doesn’t come from another squad.
Unless they’re really in love with a guy like Mayfield or Schoolcraft
Trades can involve third teams, but it’s odd we haven’t seen more multi team deals of late
I don’t see why the dodgers would move sheehan for 1 year of a guy that would slot in somewhere around 4th or 5th in their rotation.
I can’t see why the Dodgers would even be thinking about adding another SP, period.
They have so many coming back that surely 1 or 2 will be available and well, there is always: Snell, Ohtani, Yamamoto, Glasnow, Sasaki and whoever all else I’m forgetting.
Where do you put a SP on this Dodger team? It’s why I said Imai wasn’t considering going there –
He wants to be a major piece in a rotation.
Preller has a penchant for blowing everyone out of the water to make a trade happen. I agree with you but you can never really count him out.
Absolutely. There were very few Padres fans that believed DeVries could be traded and well, that happened. Now, it’s jerky he won’t trade Salas but, if there is belief in Fermin – which there seems to be – then Salas becomes expendable.
Yet, not for 1 year of Peralta. Not sure what else Brewers might have to sweeten the pot though – paying his full salary is a play AJ has used recently.
I think b/c it’s hard enough for 2 teams to agree on a deal. Adding the 3rd must be torturous.
This is just noise. Padres will be dumpster diving soon for near league minimums.
The brewers are only interested in trading Peralta if that team is going to sign him long term. Then the brewers would want a slew of high end prospects, if they can’t get that then they would be happy having him 1 more season and to try and win the division AGAIN, either way this is a win win situation for the brewers.
Unless he gets hurt, of course. Nobody is wishing for that, just stating the inherent “danger” associated with not trading/keeping somebody in a contract year.
Nobody is giving a slew of top prospects for him. He will get less than Burnes got.
I wouldn’t count on him bringing less than Burnes. Top starters are now making even more money & the only real TOR starter left is Framber Valdez.
Then they’ll just hang onto him and take the comp pick
No chance its less than Burnes. He’s half the cost and just pitched a career high innings. The last year with the Brewers he had a 3.39 ERA to Freddys 2.70 last season. It will be more or he will remain a Brewer.
If that’s the case then the brewers are keeping him. The brewers don’t want to trade him. All these teams are reaching out to them. The price for what the brewers want I just said.. high end prospects or major league ready.
But it would still be a bigger picture loss for the Brewers. Teams like them and the Rays don’t really spend much in free agency. They rely almost entirely on internal development and trading for young assets to build their roster each year. Letting a tradeable asset go to free agency untraded weakens their overall roster.
A comp pick is nice, but trading Peralta right now should net them something better and closer to being ready than that pick.
They’ll obviously get more by trading than a comp pick but you have to compensate the loss of him not being on your team that just lost in the NLCS & has plans to return.
Say what?
The only way the Brewers can know that another MLB will sign Freddy Peralta long term is if they grant negotiating permission to that club ahead of a trade. That or they possess prescient vision or a certifiably genuine crystal ball.
The previous two elite Brewers arms that were traded as they neared free agency each wound up signing long term free agent contracts with other teams.
Milwaukee traded Josh Hader and his 1+ years of arbitration control to the Padres at the 2022 summer trade deadline. Hader became a free agent following the 2023 season and signed a long term contract with the Astros.
Similarly, Corbin Burnes was traded to the Orioles just ahead of Spring Training in 2024. Burnes pitched as an arbitration rental for Baltimore in 2024 and signed a long term free agent contract with the Diamondbacks later that winter.
the dodgers using their prospect capital to play keep away with the rest of the league when they already have 7 pitchers is ridiculous but very believable.
the worst part of all this overspending is they can fundamentally change the way rosters work by load management pitchers and stashing them on the IL.
how can you compete with a team with 8 sp, only asking their guys to go 90 innings a year and having them save it for the postseason.
The Padres are interested in Peralta because the Dodgers are.
Not about the Padres, but since the Dodgers (as always!) were mentioned 😀 , I’m not sure that the Dodgers have what the Brewers would want, assuming the Brewers want to get cheaper and maintain competitiveness. Assuming Sasaki is off limits because of marketing, with one exception (Sheehan) the Dodgers young pitchers are either coming off major surgery (Stone, Ryan) or have uncertain ceilings as starters (e.g. Wrobleski, Casperius). The problem with Sheehan is that he’s already pretty close to being as good as Peralta (look at his numbers if you find this odd) so when you factor in salary and control there might not be a huge reason for the Dodgers to add more pieces. If the deal is Sheehan straight-up or say Stone/Wrobleski/Ward, great, but the Brewers probably want more than that.
Hell, at this point, let LAD shed more depth for a proven starter if they can extend him. Maybe his first paycheck will be received in 2030?
Per BTV
Peralta $26 million
Sheehan $39 million
Stone $3 million
Wrobleski $6 million
Ward $1 million
This is where BTV goes way out to lunch. Peralta is due to make $8-9M this year. If the excess value of his contract is $26M according to BTV, this means they are calculating his free agent AAV at $34-35M. Doesn’t this seem a tad high for just a notch above average? Either way you figure it, they’d be nuts to trade Sheehan for him.
Depends on contract length. You’d get a few takers on Peralta on a 1-3 year deal at that AAV.
1/34 is highly appealing. No commitment after that first season + a near guarantee he lands you a comp pick.
long term deals have a high likelihood of going bad for pitchers.
Granted teams are willing to pay a premium for a shorter-term deal, but in this case it’s somewhere close to double what he’d get AAV on a 4-5 year contract if he was a free agent now. I also wouldn’t value the QO too highly. If the player has a down or injury-marred season, that QO might look very attractive, assuming his team offers one.
Depends on how long the contract is. Short term contract I can see 35mil/yr (3 year deal). Also, 2.7 ERA last year is a notch above average?
Teams seem more likely to value him on the basis of his eight seasons rather than on just the most recent one. Career-wise he’s been above average, but not by a lot.
Ranger Suarez just got 5/130. Freddy doesn’t have declining velocity, back issues and hasnt missed a start in 3 years.
There’s no way he’s not topping that if he were a FA today. $34MM def isn’t double what he’s worth on a long term contract.
BlueSkies, according to just about every POBO/GM I have ever heard speak on the subject most teams look at a players value based on the last 3 years with it weighted to the most recent season. 4 years if there was a season lost to injury.
I’d consider Suarez to be a reasonable comp for Peralta as a mid-rotation arm. He’s getting $25M AAV. This is why I believe BTV is aiming too high for Peralta, by around $10M. Maybe you can shave off some of that difference for the one-year commitment and the potential for a netting a draft pick, but I still don’t see that gap being closed. I used to look at BTV a lot but I don’t anymore because some of their numbers seemed kind of crazy to me and their methodology for arriving at them is opaque. (Also, a lot of the site is behind a paywall now.)
tucker just got nearly double on a 4 yr deal what his best offer (10/350) was on a long term.
1 year is much less of a commitment than 4
i think suarez is better than peralta, but not by a ton
Peralta – 5.5 WAR = $55 million on FA market. $8 million salary. The excess or surplus value for a repeat of 2025 is $47 million.
Sheehan has 1.3 WAR over 3 seasons, one of which was lost to injury. His value is about $10 million per season if he can repeat 2025 with 4 years of team control. His maximum estimated value based on actual performance is $40 million over the next 4 season, but that is not excess or surplus value. This is the last season of him making minimum. After 2026 he is arbitration eligible so his salary will start rising.
The rest have no excess or surplus value. Stone didn’t pitch at all in 2025 and has a 0.7 WAR over the 2 previous seasons. At 27 he is not even considered a prospect anymore and has no excess value. Wrobleski had negative WAR. He is a hindrance to a trade, not a positive. Ward? Seriously? A 28 year old that hasn’t risen above AAA. His value total is not above replacement level and he will make that much money if he is ever called up. No excess value at all.
That is why I completely ignore BTV valuations.
Sheehan was a rookie who was called up for half a season in ‘23. In ‘25 he was recovering and only pitched half a season. Disingenuous to say he’s maxed out as a 1 WAR pitcher per season too.
You just took Freddy’s best year and comped against multiple seasons for the other guys. Freddy wasn’t ever a 5 WAR pitcher before.
B14
“You just took Freddy’s best year and comped against multiple seasons for the other guys.”
Intellectual dishonesty at it’s finest.
SF
“That is why I completely ignore BTV valuations”
Question that I frequently ask, and no one ever answers
If you disagree with something, how do you decide if you are wrong or that thing is wrong?
Another question: why would you ignore something that has shown to be so accurate?
“How did our model do at the 2025 deadline?
Starting with the Josh Naylor trade, here’s the scorecard:
Number of trades: 64
Number accepted by the model: 57
Acceptance rate: 88%
Average value variance per deal: 3.5”
*https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/articles/2025-trade-deadline-analysis-how-did-our-model-do
SF
“That is why I completely ignore BTV valuations.”
“Ward? Seriously? A 28 year old that hasn’t risen above AAA. His value total is not above replacement level and he will make that much money if he is ever called up. No excess value at all.”
You completely ignore them because you think Ward’s value is $0 and BTV has $1 million? You know that’s literally a 1 run difference between your valuation and their valuation. Right?
“Wrobleski had negative WAR. He is a hindrance to a trade, not a positive. ”
FanGraphs had Wrobleski and 1.5 fWAR last year. And 0.5 RA9 WAR. And project him for 0.3 WAR next year.
“[Sheehan’s] maximum estimated value based on actual performance”
Do you think it’s possible for a player to improve? Or is everyone bound by their last season?
Sheehan put up 2.1 WAR in 73 innings last year per FG. He’s projected for 2.4 WAR in 154 innings this year.
“The excess or surplus value for a repeat of 2025 is $47 million.”
Peralta was credited with 3.6 fWAR last year and is projected for 2.9 by FanGraphs.
Dodgers need to trade for Peralta and Skubal.
Padres will throw on a friar to be named later though!
It is sad that I can actually see them doing that. Someone mentioned they are playing keep away (with the Mets?)…seems accurate.
CaliMade —
“Dodgers need to trade for Peralta and Skubal.”
Why not wait a year and sign them for billions, most of it deferred of course.
PV
Because you get one less year of them
You’re welcome
“Yoshinobu Yamamoto is only guy still on the roster who topped 91 innings pitched last year. Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, Emmet Sheehan, Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki all came in under that line due to various different health situations”
Sheehan pitched 93 innings between the majors and minors.
Glasnow had 99
Doesn’t change the point, but minor league innings should definitely be considered when talking about how much someone pitched since it’s, you know, pitching.
True story, and I was scratching my head over this line: “The Dodgers presumably don’t expect the whole group to stay healthy for 2026.”
Name the team that expects all of their starters to stay healthy for an entire season, and I’ll name the team that’s in for a nasty surprise.
Brewers also dont need or likely want him… padres have one of the worst systems in baseball… unlikely they get Peralta
Im uncertain if it is Milwaukee who hasn’t offered an extension to Peralta or if Peralta is holding out for FA but I’d say, after all Freddy has given to the Brewers, that they can forgo the prospects and make a run at it this season with Freddy at the top of the rotation.
The Brewers have to beat the Cubs for the NL Central title in ’26. It is the most important season for this with Cubs fans getting their hopes up again.
Milwaukee needs Peralta more than ever!
NoABS
“The Brewers have to beat the Cubs for the NL Central title in ’26. It is the most important season for this with Cubs fans getting their hopes up again.”
I don’t think this is how teams make decisions
@jazzhands — I think you should put on some Mingus and dance yourself into the evening.
It is a big year for the Brewers, building on last season’s success. Freddy should be part of it. Beating the Cubs should be Milwaukee’s primary focus.
They had the best record in baseball in 2025. I would say they need to continue last years success.
I buy this and I also buy they are shopping Pivetta to shed salary. Pivetta to the Mets or Orioles makes so much sense, I am surprised there aren’t more rumors about it.
Everyone is waiting on Valdez.
Juan is dang slow in delivering that coffee!
I wonder if Framber is getting shorter offers than expected.
If what Astros fans have stated is correct regarding his mentality, clubs might not want to deal with him messing up clubhouse culture. Which means he will probably go to the Mets, since apparently they don’t care. Waiting to see how long it takes for them to trade Lindor since he and Soto apparently don’t get along.
If teams were willing to meet the asking price, Peralta would already be headed elsewhere. They can offer a QO and gain a year or draft picks.
I just don’t see the appeal of sending a gaggle of prospects for a rental, no matter what the majority of fans and internet writers want.
Jdawg
“I just don’t see the appeal of sending a gaggle of prospects for a rental, ”
Every player is a “rental”. Who is on an eternal contract?
Players on shorter contracts, say one-year, bring back less in return than if they were on longer contracts. Like you’d pay less for one year of a subscription to MLBTR than you would for two years.
I would just do the QO or trade him at the deadline.
QO for Peralta is a year from now, they just made Woodruff a QO which he accepted for $22M.
Woodruff ALSO had a $10M buyout to go along with that $22M QO.
Brewers may not need to trade SP for SP. Greater need is an infielder with slug potential. They could package Peralta and a backup infielder for both pieces.
If Las Vegas had a line on this, I would say the O/U would be that 28.5 teams checked in on Peralta. They always have that .5 in there.
Peralta to the Rangers for Burger, Osuna, #28 OF Maxton Martin and #29 Leandro Lopez a RHP
If the Dodgers start the season with a nine man starting rotation and reduce as injuries occur, they can manage fitting him in.
But I don’t see them trading from their top 5-6 starters for one year of Peralta.
Maybe they find other trade options, but I think it’s a longshot that Milwaukee trades him to the Dodgers, as they will likely need to go through the Dodgers if they are to get to their ultimate goal.
It would be like them trading him to the Cubs.
Brewers without Peralta are borderline “not” a playoff team. Same thing goes for Detroit and skubal
Then Detroit and Milwaukee should work a deal…Peralta, Gasser and another prospect for Skubal. Then they can play each other in the World Series!
91-92 wins instead of 97?
that clearly doesnt matter to the dodgers or mets, but yeah its a big factor for the padres
He should come pitch for the Rockies, and join his brother, Luis.
Wash, rinse, repeat the same story with Brewers and Peralta. They traded 3 players in past, QO’d 1 player vs trading. Somewhere within a Brewers forum I think was a post with no names have been exchanged by any teams. Interest is just calling to see if Peralta was available still.
The Brewers have a deep system. 2 top 20 prospects with a former top 20 in C-Quero.
Andrew Fischer was recently named best 3b prospect in minors. The Brewers have7-9 SP possible to boot. They’ve reached the point where prospects arent really needed to stay competitive. Loaded OF. About the only thing the team could look to improve is a better hitting SS and Made is knocking on that scenario. The trade would need to be ridiculous over the top for Brewers to complete one. Freddy also wants to stay in Milwaukee. They made good money last season so the team isnt hurting where they stand right now.
Give it another 2 weeks and this story will get posted with a New team. Boston, Seattle, heck any AL Central team.
sounds like they’ve discussed specific names with the mets.
i agree that if there’s one expiring star they keep it should be peralta bc he only costs 8m, but it’s hard to argue that they have a very specific strategy of trading expiring guys and they’ve had a good run lately
What’s up with Chris Paddack? He’s a free agent and pitched well in San Diego before. Why not take a flyer on him and see if he can resurrect his career where he had most of his success. I know signing a free agent to an inexpensive contract doesn’t give Preller the dopamine rush he gets from his typical 9 player, top prospect Rubik’s cube swaps, but they could use a little help in that rotation.