“Freddy Peralta… Brewers are planning to keep him” -Bob Nightengale
November 10, 2025
“Freddy Peralta… Brewers are planning to keep him” -Bob Nightengale
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Trading a pitcher who I feel has never missed a start coming off his best year and at $8m would be the dumbest shit ever regardless of the return. Our farm system is loaded and unless we can get a starting level SS (which no one would part with) there’s not much we could get back to justify it.
Talk like this is pretty meaningless since all it does is raise the asking price for a trade, but the logic is sound. The Brewers aren’t retooling right now, any offer they get for Freddy should blow them away for it to be considered.
Well if Bob is saying it, then the opposite must be true.
For real though, if Freddy leaves, that’s a big chunk out of the rotation, especially with Woody gone. No way the team does that unless the haul is insane.
Good, they’ll still get a pick around #40 in the 2027 draft after he leaves, rotation needs experience for 2026 and he will raise our ceiling. If they traded him they’d get a similar return probably that they got for Burnes (Joey Ortiz, DL Hall, pick #40 in 2024 (Blake Burke)) which in hindsight was pretty underwhelming
Too many people don’t realize that at $8M, Freddy is basically untouchable as a rental.
He’s a perennial All-Star and Cy Young conversational player.
A team would have to either part with a *lot* of top-tier talent (1-2 top-tier starter and likely 1-3 top prospects), or send pretty massive cash reserves our way.
That price would likely go up the closer to (or further past) the luxury tax threshold the trading team is.
He’s also only 74 Ks away from breaking the all-time franchise record. Gotta get him there!
“We haven’t gotten the offers we want yet”
Merry Christmas
In the past, when we traded the likes of Burnes and Hader, we were needing to keep our farm system stocked.
Our farm is one of the best in baseball at the moment. Yes, we could get great return for Freddy, but for what? There’s a limit to how many viable prospects you can have and get them playing time.
Also the 2027 baseball season may be a lockout. Keep Freddy and run it back. Free agency after the 2026 season might be on hold.
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Trading a pitcher who I feel has never missed a start coming off his best year and at $8m would be the dumbest shit ever regardless of the return. Our farm system is loaded and unless we can get a starting level SS (which no one would part with) there’s not much we could get back to justify it.
Talk like this is pretty meaningless since all it does is raise the asking price for a trade, but the logic is sound. The Brewers aren’t retooling right now, any offer they get for Freddy should blow them away for it to be considered.
Well if Bob is saying it, then the opposite must be true.
For real though, if Freddy leaves, that’s a big chunk out of the rotation, especially with Woody gone. No way the team does that unless the haul is insane.
Good, they’ll still get a pick around #40 in the 2027 draft after he leaves, rotation needs experience for 2026 and he will raise our ceiling. If they traded him they’d get a similar return probably that they got for Burnes (Joey Ortiz, DL Hall, pick #40 in 2024 (Blake Burke)) which in hindsight was pretty underwhelming
Too many people don’t realize that at $8M, Freddy is basically untouchable as a rental.
He’s a perennial All-Star and Cy Young conversational player.
A team would have to either part with a *lot* of top-tier talent (1-2 top-tier starter and likely 1-3 top prospects), or send pretty massive cash reserves our way.
That price would likely go up the closer to (or further past) the luxury tax threshold the trading team is.
He’s also only 74 Ks away from breaking the all-time franchise record. Gotta get him there!
“We haven’t gotten the offers we want yet”
Merry Christmas
In the past, when we traded the likes of Burnes and Hader, we were needing to keep our farm system stocked.
Our farm is one of the best in baseball at the moment. Yes, we could get great return for Freddy, but for what? There’s a limit to how many viable prospects you can have and get them playing time.
Also the 2027 baseball season may be a lockout. Keep Freddy and run it back. Free agency after the 2026 season might be on hold.