RUMBLINGS: National Media TRIES to Trade Freddie Peralta—| Milwaukee Brewers Podcast

RUMBLINGS: National Media TRIES to Trade Freddie Peralta—| Milwaukee Brewers Podcast

The national media needs to back off and quit trading our players. We are not a dumping ground. We’ll talk about that next and more here on Locked on Brewer. You are Locked On Brewers, your daily Milwaukee Brewers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. I’m Chuck Freeman. Welcome to Lockdown Brewers, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. We are your team every day. Now the number one sports podcast network, longtime sports cer here in the great state of Wisconsin, the Dair State and proud host of Lockdown Brewers. The national media continues to play fantasy baseball with our baseball teams. However, they did bring up a name, so we’ll play along. Alec Bow interested, we’ll talk about that. Freddy Peralta. Man, the rumors are hot and heck that they continue to be every day with Freddy Peralta. We’ll talk about that. Pitching for hitting. The Brewers have an abundance of pitching. Should they trade some of that in addition of Peralta for some offense on this team? We’ll get to all that. Locked on Brewers, part of Lockdown Podcast Network. And we are brought to you in part by FanDuel, FanDuel, America’s number one sports book. You want to be right in the middle of all the action this season, visit fanuel.com. Place your live NFL bets right there on FanDuel. If you know me and you’ve been watching this podcast forever, I am very protective of our sports teams, in particular the Milwaukee Brewers, because there’s no salary cap and I don’t like it. I don’t like it. I really, really hate the way it’s been trending forever now, 35 years way baseball salaries have gotten out of whack. And the Brewers did pay a price there for the in the ’90s and for many years, right? They didn’t get right until uh the mid 2000s, like 2005, and started to turn things around and they just couldn’t adjust. And baseball does need a salary cap. But that said, because of this, because there is a a horrible disadvantage that big market teams have gotten on the Milwaukee Brewers, um the Brewers are considered kind of a dumping ground for the national media. The Brewers go out and win themselves 97 games and they’re considered a nice story. I told you when I was walking in the ballpark at Dodger Stadium, one national media guy, I’m not going to name his name. All right. But he was Jo was we were checking in and going through security. He was mentioning how glad that he was that the series was going to be done in four games. And I called him out and I said, “Oh, oh great. You you had you gave the Brewers no shot at this, did you?” He goes, “Well, I actually had the Dodgers winning in six, but I’ll we’ll gladly go home right now.” And I’m like, I mean, he was right. I just don’t want to hear it. It’s one thing if if we as Brewer fans criticize our team, right? If we criticize our Brewers team, they’re our team, but when you hear Mr. National Guy with a coat and tie, you know, when you hear New York talking about our team, that’s a little different story. Especially when they talk about them in the wrong context and mostly in the bad context. Yeah, I have a little um I’m a little defensive about the Milwaukee Brewers uh and our fans here. I don’t like our fans being made fun of on TV. I don’t like when we show the cheese heads on the national media and everybody makes fun of us. I don’t like that. I We’re supposed to embrace it according, you know, these national media comes come to our town and they brought worse and all they make fun of it, you know, and I I don’t like that. I I don’t like I’m tired of hearing these jokes. They’re not funny. Okay? And I feel like with our sports teams, they have no respect for them. Okay? Maybe the Milwaukee Brewers have not won a World Series, but you know what? And Mark Anasio, maybe sometimes I’m a little tough on him. And he has, let’s face it, Mark Anonasio has done a pretty good job, right? Considering the climate of Major League Baseball with the salaries out of whack, he’s done a pretty good job keeping this thing intact. Now, do I think he could spend some more money? Absolutely he could. I think he absolutely could spend about 30 or 35 more million a year, of course. But let’s face it, he’s been a pretty good order owner. He’s kept this team in town, which he, you know, was required to do basically because we got the stadium. But right, I I just don’t want to hear comments from him about this team being a summer of entertainment because I want the summer of winning and we did have the summer of winning last year. Uh, so Mark Anonasio has done a pretty good job. All right, the Brewers won 97 games this past year and yeah, busted out against the Dodgers, but it was a great regular season, but I feel like every year what happens is these national people just love coming in and plucking away our players right away. I mean, they’re doing it and and and it’s always like and what really bothered me the other day, MLB.com wrote this article, one free agent the Brewers, what one free agent every baseball team should pick up. and the Brewers. For the Brewers, the one free agent, it was Devin Williams. Oh, Devin needs uh maybe a proving ground. He needs to prove himself. So, that’s the reason why we should pick him up. That’s You’re telling me what Devin needs, not what the Brewers need. One free agent every team should pick up. Brewers should pick up Devin Williams because it would help him out at all. He needs some proving ground. Well, thank goodness Deon Williams signed with the New York Mets and they overpaid for him. But I don’t like those things. I I I really don’t. And it bothers me that every year we’re going through this that uh these national guys are talking about, well, let’s just trade Freddy Peralta. Well, he can go here, he can go there, he can go everywhere. Well, this is a problem of Major League Baseball, right? When we talk about the problems of baseball, this is it right here that we could just go into the small market like the national media is doing to the Milwaukee Bucks right now with Giannis out of the Koopo. You know, they’ve been trying to get Giannis out of Milwaukee for the last 10 years. And the same thing whenever Milwaukee gets a good player and they’ll be doing it with Christian uh uh Jackson Cheerio down the line. Oh yeah. Oh, when the time comes. Those rumblings were happening happening. uh you know he’ll next couple of years just like it was with Giannis. I mean every year we’re dealing this with Giannis and it’s going to be the same thing with Jackson Cheerio if he continues on his path to greatness. It’s like when’s Christian when is Jackson Centurio going to get traded? When are you know he’s going to go here the Yankees? Yes. Well then that’s a problem with baseball and I’m tired of the national media just coming in here and playing fantasy baseball with our team. I don’t want to hear it. I I don’t like it. I I hate it and I get it. We have to absorb it and all that, but that’s just the way it is. Uh the latest player, Alec Bomb, I read something here that Alec Bow needs a prove it deal. Well, why does he got to prove it in Milwaukee? Oh, Alec Bow should sign for a a prove it deal. Go to Milwaukee and prove it. No, we don’t want Alec Bow. Maybe we don’t want Alec Bow. I’ll take Durban over Alec Bomb. Maybe last year I felt differently about that Alec Bow, but the guy went out there this year and um you know had 287 11 home runs and wasn’t very good defensively. All right. I thought that guy had a world of talent, but I don’t want Alec Bow here. What do you want? Freddy Peralta for Alec Bow. Is that what you want? No. Maybe last year the stock was a little higher in Alec Bow, but that’s one guy. The national media, I saw parts of it today. Um and it’s starting. No, we don’t want Alec Bow here. Phillies are trying to trade him. It sounds like they don’t want him back. Sounds like Boom. He hasn’t been happy being in Philadelphia the last couple of years. Remember that he his comments couple of years ago when he was on the field, a live camera uh caught his comments that he didn’t want to be there. But we are not a dumping ground. We’re not a place where people should go and and fix their careers and get right. All right. I don’t like that. Brewers have established themselves as the best team in the National League Central. And let’s face it, whether you want to admit it or not, they’re one of the best teams in baseball and they had the best record in baseball. And yeah, the championships aren’t there, but in the last seven or eight years, you look at the overall record regular season, the Brewers are one of the best teams in baseball. You can’t deny that. Yeah, ultimately we’re judged on championships, but you can’t deny that. But I’m just tired of the fantasy baseball stuff of uh of these national guys having no problem. I know they don’t like coming here. I mean, you rarely see that in Milwaukee anywhere. When they come here, they always talk with that that weird smile on their face like, “Oh, I’m in Milwaukee.” You don’t say that about New York, Boston, Baltimore, Seattle. You don’t say that about Texas. You don’t say that about other spots, but they say it about Milwaukee. I’m tired of it. Uh yeah, Devin Williams. That was a guy the Brewers on MLB.com. God, that fired me up when I saw that. I was so excited. I was scrolling down. One team every free agent needs. Devin Williams. That’s what we came up with. MLB.com. And this wasn’t Adam McKelie writing the the article. This was uh one of their national guys. And I was like, really? Unbelievable. All right, we’re going to feed into it. Like I said in the open, the Freddy Peralta, the Freddy Peralta rumblings, they’re they’re hot and heavy today. We’ll get the the latest on that coming up next here on Locked on Brewers. Locked on Brewers brought to you by FanDuel, America’s number one sports book. FanDuel, the NFL, the NBA. If you took the Bucks on the live line tonight when they were plus 18 against the Pistons, man, you cashed in big time because the Bucks won that one outright. Well, you can do those same sort of things on NFL Sundays and college football and all that. You can do it right on FanDuel. 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I’ve put in the wrong play other sites, but you don’t get that same sort of runaround with FanDuel, America’s number one sports book. Good to have you along here on Lockdown Brewers, part of Lockdown Podcast Network. We are your team every day. You get us on Google, Spotify, Apple, wherever you download your audio p uh podcast for the number one brewers podcast on the internet. And uh and of course, if you want to follow us on YouTube as well, if you’re already listening to the audio version of Lockdown Brewers every day, go to YouTube, search Lockdown Brewers, hit the subscribe button, hit the bell. That alerts you every time we drop an episode here on Lockdown Brewers. All right, the Freddy Peralta from what I’m hearing. All right, it’s changing daily with the Milwaukee Brewers and the Brewers are getting right now some offers for Peralta. They are as Matt Arnold said at the season ending press conference and I believe this and as I said on those season ending press conferences don’t believe everything but on his season ending press conference he said I haven’t thought about Peralta but everything is on the table now I haven’t thought about Peralta stuff I don’t know if I believe that but the fact that everything is on the table everything is on the table and it sounds to me from what I’m hearing ing that the Brewers are getting some offers out there for Peralta, some pretty good offers out there for Freddy because of the price tag, because teams are looking for starting pitching. The Brewers have won won 17 games. Freddy won 17 games last year. He was at the top of the rotation on a 97 win team. I think some teams out there look at Freddy as a number two starter next to the number one they have. So, there’s some teams definitely throwing some packages at the Milwaukee Brewers these days, some really good ones. And I’ve said all along that I want Freddy to stay, but I would do this. If if there is a if there is a deal you cannot refuse, you got to jump at it, right? I mean, if there is a deal out there for Freddy that some team who just can’t help themselves, and there’s a several teams out there like that, and we know who those teams are. If there is a team that just can’t help themselves and they’re going to give you top-of-the-line prospects and maybe a veteran and maybe another starting p well, we don’t really need another starting pitcher or maybe a bullpen guy, a a really really nice package. And I’m talking a p a package better than the one the Brewers got with Corbin Burns, better than the one with Josh her. Better than the deal the package that they got for Devin Williams. I’m talking about a super package. I would do it if it’s a really, really good P package. I think the Brewers could live without Freddy Peralta. Okay, I think they can. And I still think they’d be the best team in this division without Freddy Peralta. Do I want him to go? Obviously, no. I’d love to run it back with him and Wood at the top of the rotation. would love to have those two guys at the top of the rotation. But I’m saying if you had a chance to improve your team in other areas, I would have to seriously think about that. Getting Freddy, who’s going to be a great fit wherever he goes. And I’m telling you, Freddy is a great clubhouse guy, good personality, and he is fantastic in the leadership role. and he worked himself, I believe, into an ace role this past year. Yeah. The the one thing about him is uh runs up a high pitch counter early. I get that. That’s the one thing I think. And maybe opponents or teams who are trying to trade for him will say, “Well, we’d love to give you all this for Freddy, but he does have a high pitch count by the fourth inning sometimes.” But if you could get a mammoth package for him, and there are some big-time packages that seem sounds like they’re being thrown around right now, I would do it in a heartbeat. Would do it in a heartbeat. Don’t want to trade him, but hey, if this is what you’re going to give for me, Freddy, man, we loved you when you were here. You did a lot for this team. You’ve been here since 2018. you were always a good clubhouse guy. He’d understand because he knows he’s not going to be here beyond 2026, right? He’s not going to be here behind beyond 2026. And god forbid the Brewers aren’t in the race in 2025. By June, all these national guys are going to try to trade Peralta. If you thought that the Brewers, if these national guys were bearing down on the Brewers when they were in a wildcard spot, remember last summer Brewers were in a wild card spot technically and they were still those national guys wanting to trade Freddy Peralta was like, can you do you see the standings? The Brewers are they could use Peralta. They’re not trading. They’re not sending guys off. So, if the Brewers do get off to a slow well, they off to a slow start in last year in the first two months. let’s say into July and it’s clear they have just an outside shot at at a wild card. If god forbid they went down that road, the media vultures would be all over the Milwaukee Brewers to trade him and they would trade him. So I’d keep him trade him at the deadline if you’re not in it. But if you get a big offer, you’re in the in the baseball winner meetings or as I hear some of these nice offers that are coming in already for Freddy. Got to do it. You got to do it. I like the idea of trading some of this pitching for hitting. And making a blockbuster move. Making a blockbuster move wouldn’t be the worst idea in the world, right? We’ll talk about that next here on Locked on Brewers. Lockdown Brewers. We are the number one sports podcasting network out there. And thanks for making Lockdown Brewers your first listen to every day. Thank you for making Lockdown On the number one sports podcast network out there. I I tell you, I appreciate you guys every day. Um even here in the wintertime, I got I’m I’m getting messages. I’m getting DMs. I’m getting Facebook messages and I write back to you guys. And if I haven’t got back to you, I will get back to you. But I’m telling you, I I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that. You I’ve been a Brewers fan all my life. I’ve lived in Wisconsin all my life. I’ve covered the Brewers for over 40 years. Yeah, I was a 14-year-old kid when I was covering this team. So, I’ve been around this team a long time. And uh covering the Brewers is something I love to do and I’m going to continue to do it for a long, long time. And I love hearing from you guys. Drop me a note on Twitter as well. Chuck Freeman. F R E I M U N D. You want to Facebook friend me, find me on there as well. That is very cool. Um, but never be afraid to hesitate or drop me a note or you see me anywhere. I had a fell a couple of weeks ago stop me in a a sports card collecting store. Says, “Uh, this is he comes up to me and he goes, “This is going to sound odd, but uh are you Chuck Freeman?” You bet I am. I’m not Rowdy Rowdy Piper, that’s for sure. Um, so please drop me a note and you see me on the streets. Always, always, always love to chat with you guys and maybe we’ll see you at the clubhouse sale coming up. Uh, I believe that’s this weekend. Yeah, the clubhouse sale is coming up this weekend. I’m going to be down there. My kids got hockey practice at the Pettit. Definitely. Definitely. And I ran into I’ve ran into fans at the Pettit already before as well. Um, yeah, I just want to I kind of mentioned this at the top. I have been getting on Mark Aanasio a little bit and uh I I really got him a couple of podcasts ago because he’s not spending any money and I said hey couple of these guys who are free agents out there why can’t we be spending some money on some of these guys why can’t the brewer payroll be upwards of 155 160 million right I do like him as an owner and I know some of you guys call cheapkate and all that. I see the memes on Twitter and some of you guys are very funny. Um, but I mean he has done a good job. He for the most part he has. I know he wanted to spend more money. I get that. Um, when he didn’t make any trades at the trading deadline, yes. And when I say he, well, it’s Matt Arnold. But as I’ve mentioned, it all goes to Mark Anthonyio. But would I love the Brewers to make a trade this suck winter or a blockbuster deal? If it means trading some pitching for hitting, I’d do it. They always say you can never have enough pitching, but pitching isn’t what has hurt the Brewers in the postseason or the regular season. The Brewers pitching has been one of the top staffs, bullpen to starters in the last several years. You look at their pitching. I feel like every off seasonason I I get messages people say, “Oh, the Brewers need to pick up some pitching.” No, they got plenty of pitching. In fact, they had so much pitching this past year. They were able to trade Cavali during the season. You never see contenders trade pitching. They were able to trade Seavali. He wanted out and they accommodated him. But the Brewers, if they were able to pull off a blockbuster deal, and I’m talking even if you had to trade, let’s say there was a team out there that where you could fortify a different position on this team and you had to trade a priest. Okay, maybe you had to trade a Contrarus. I’d really think about it. I think about if you had to make a blockbuster move there and I know what you’re saying. You’re saying, “Well, you’re trading Contras. You’re giving up some offense.” Well, you’d have to get yourself another catcher. But if it meant getting a a decent catcher somewhere in a trade and then beefing up your third base spot somehow, you know, mixing and matching free agency or whatever, they can get better here in the offseason. Just because they won 97 games and they bought out to the Dodgers doesn’t mean you got to throw your hands up. And you know what? That’s going to be a tough to equal that 97 wins. and what they did last last summer. But, you know, you might ask, how could you get how can you improve on 97 wins? They can become a better team offensively. They can become better in different areas. Their pitching was so good and the bullpen was so good. I mean, you basically had two closers on this team, Yuri and McGill. If you had to trade maybe even either one of those guys for sure, McGill, if somebody wanted your rebate, I’d think about it if I could get some offensive firepower back because let’s face it, the Brewers need that. I’m that third base spot. I really want Durban to move to second. And I saw one of the national guys, the Alec, when I was talking about Alec Bow earlier, he said, “Well, the Brewers, if they if they traded for Alec Bow, they would have to move Durban to shortstop.” And that just tells you where these national guys know. Alec Bow is not uh uh Durban is not playing shortstop on the Milwaukee Brewers. Not whatsoever. The switch would be if they got a third baseman. Tang would move to short, Durban would move to second. And I think we still I have to I have to believe that Durban is an everyday player. I do. I know there’s some people who do question who cover this team question whether or not he is maybe even better a better version of a monasterio where he’s a platoon guy. You move him around from different positions and all that. Now I think he’s done enough that he’s a an everyday player. At least right now I feel that way. I mean, that could change down the road, but I think if you could go out there and make a blockbuster deal and you could trade even one of your pieces, I’m not talking about one of your controllable younger pieces like Terang or Freelick, although Pster is, but you have an abundance of pitching on this team. If you had to trade one of those guys, one of those pitchers, I would do it. If I could if I could get some more pop in this lineup, I certainly would do it. All right, everybody. That’s going to do it for Lockdown Brewers. Baseball winter meetings start next week. And of course, we’ll be here every day. Thought about even going out to Orlando, but I just got back from Arizona. But we will be monitoring. 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Milwaukee Brewers fans fire back as national media targets star players for trades—are the Brewers really just a “dumping ground”? Chuck Freimund examines the mounting rumors around Freddie Peralta, scrutinizes MLB.com’s controversial Devin Williams coverage, and questions whether Alec Bohm is a fit for Milwaukee. As trade speculation heats up, will the Brewers shake up their pitching staff for offensive upgrades, or hold tight to their ace?

Locked On Brewers spotlights Mark Attanasio’s ownership, pitching depth, and the challenge of small-market success amid soaring baseball salaries. Hot topics include potential blockbuster deals, the future of Jackson Chourio, and fan frustrations with stereotypical national coverage. How can Milwaukee maintain its dominance in the NL Central—and should they risk a major roster move for postseason glory?

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RUMBLINGS: National Media TRIES to Trade Freddie Peralta—| Milwaukee Brewers Podcast

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