BREAKING: Yankees PUSH for Freddy Peralta—Could Brewers SELL Their Star Pitcher Soon?

Are the Brewers getting closer to dealing Freddy Peralta? According to one report, they could be. That’s next here on Locked On Brewers. >> You are Locked On Brewers, your daily Milwaukee Brewers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. >> Hi everybody, Chuck Freeman here. Locked on Brewers, part of Locked On Network. We are your team every day. Longtime sports cer here in the state of Wisconsin. Proud host of Locked on Brewers. Thanks for making us your number one. Listen every day. We are the number one sports podcasting network in the world right now because of you great fans out there. And uh the show is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use the promo code locked on MLB. 20 bucks off your first purchase with Game Time. Coming up here on the show today, the off season is moving at a snail’s pace. Is there something happening in the new year? We’ll talk about that. Advancing in the postseason is imminent with the Milwaukee Brewers. Obviously, top of mind. What will the Brewers do with the shortstop? We’ll talk to Grant Bills from the Whis Sports Show coming up here a little bit later on in the show. Want to talk off the top. There’s um saw a couple of reports today. May maybe this is just wishful thinking from some these national guys that the Brewers and that the Yankees are one of the lead candidates for Freddy Peralta right now. Vance side certainly wants them there. Vance side says well the Yankees need to go out and get this guy because the Yankees have multiple injuries in their rotation to start the season. Garrick Cole Redone is not going to be ready for the start of the season. Neither will Clark Schmidt. So, you got a few guys there on the table and hey, if the Yankees are in desperation mode, let’s uh let’s get them for for all they got for Freddy, right? I mean, we’re not selling Freddy. If they if they really want Freddy, he’s out there for a price. Brewers right now are claiming that, well, we we don’t we don’t know if we want to trade him. We love him. will have been a starting rotation next year, but I think ideally they would love to trade him. I think that’s their MO and that’s what they would like to do. And they would obviously move Woodruff to the number one spot, number one spot in the rotation. Not that he’s not, but a guy’s coming off an injury again and automatically catapulted to the number one spot in the rotation. But we’ll worry about that if maybe when Freddy Peralta gets traded. But right now, the Yankees sound like the top team out there. And if you can get the Yankees to overpay, which the Yankees sometimes do, I don’t think they overpaid for Devin Williams last year. Now, in the, as it turned out, maybe they did because Deon didn’t do anything for them and the Brewers got a starting third baseman out of it and they made the trade for Lockage with the other piece of that trade. So, I thought this was kind of funny, though. There was a free agent pitcher out there who I think a lot of people were alarmed at signed this deal, including me. Some may have not even thought this guy was in baseball yet. Adrien Howser first traded him to the Mets a few years ago, got released by Texas. Well, he had a resurgence of his career with the White Socks last year and he had an RA in 11 starts of 2.10. Terrific. Is it a good run or a resurgence? I mean, was Adrien Hower ever really any good? Signs a two-year, $22 million deal with the San Francisco Giants. Man, the Giants. Good for the Good for Adrien Hower, and he was able to get two years, 22 million option for a third year. Oh god. If the Brewers had gone down that road, a guy who was released by Texas and Milwaukee didn’t want signed a less than journeyman pitcher for two years or 22 million. I guess if you got it done with the White Socks, but I mean we’re going to use the 11 starts the White Socks as a sample size and get a big contract. My goodness. I just thought that was kind of odd. Obviously, the Yankees didn’t want to go for Adrien Hower, but San Francisco sure did. I feel like San Francisco pulls off one or two dumb moves every offseason. They think this is it right here. I mean, even given, we all love Willie Damus, but even giving Willie what he got, 178 million. Come on, please. But people ask me, when are the Brewers going to be making their move? When is the when’s the time going to come for the Brewers to make a move? When are they going to make it? And just like us, the Reds, and a few other teams out there, we’re going to go shopping in the bargain bin coming up. You know what the bargain bin is? You go to the store and you know, you see a bunch of nice things, nice clothes, and then there’s always that bargain bin where clothes are just thrown in there and they got the tags on, everything 50% off. It’s closed at one time that had a high price, but eventually you look at the label $119 89 59 $30 plus 50% off. The marketer wanted the price to be high, but the people, the consumers didn’t think the price was that high. And that’s what the Brewers are hoping right now. Like last year, the Brewers were hoping or Joseé Kintana was hoping to get 15 million out there at least last year from somebody. Well, when no one came and got that, the Brewers said, “Kintana, veteran pitcher, we’ll take you for 4 million. How about that?” Done. One-year deal. Second year of that deal was for 15 million. And the Bers were never going to pick up that option. Even if he had won the Sai Young this year, even if he had won the Kintana, even if he had won the Sai Young this year, he was not going to get 15 million. But that’s what the Brewers will be doing. You watch January, once you get close to February, some of these guys are looking for jobs. Some of these guys will really be looking for jobs. Could be a high price guy. Who knows? that maybe over overvalued himself, opted out of the worst is when these guys like opt out of a a deal. They opt out of the final couple years of the deal and then they find out they can’t find a job. So, we’ll see. And it’s and it’s a shame, but this is a state of baseball that the Brewers got to go shopping in the bargain bin. But, they’ve been pretty good in the bargain bin. It’s like every day or every other day the Brewers will might make a move. Oh, a couple weeks ago, the Brewers signed veteran outfielder. That was the headline as it came up on my on on my phone. I’m like, “Oh my god, no way. No way.” Cal Schwarber. He’d be veteran DH, but of course. And it was a kill bed. A kill bed. I hope we didn’t give him too much. Yep. That’s what the Brewers look, you know, again, they’re they want to get these guys who are going over to Korea, coming back, trying to establish their career, maybe put up some good numbers overseas at one time with high draft pick, and the Brewers are just hoping a guy like that lands in their lap. That’s what the Milwaukee Brewers need to do. It’s been working out all except for the postseason. All right, we come back. Grant Bill’s Wisco Sports um sports show comes up with us and a statewide 4 to6. He’s going to join us. We’ll talk some Brewers with him next here on Locked on Brewers. Coming up on the show here on Locked on Brewers. Again, we got to talk about put out a funny tweet that said the Brewers have figured out how to get it done for 162 games. They got that mastered. They just can’t master a sevename run in the postseason. 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FanDuel, the game moves fast and so can you with FanDuel. Let’s bring in Grant Bills. He’s the host of the Wisco Sports Show statewide 4 to6 daily and the great dairy state. It’s been about a year since we had him on the show. Now it’s the offseason, so that’s when we start rolling back the guests. Grant, appreciate you coming on the show. That’s when you That’s when you start recruiting the the B and C and D list guest. Is that what you mean? Yeah. No, it’s it’s fine. >> Oh, that’s not it. No, but like during the during the season, like I just do the show myself. >> You’re reacting to content. Yeah, I’m doing 30 minutes of content myself, but in the offseason, there’s room for more guests. There’s room for more guests. >> And what a luxury that is. I get it. It’s a luxury that you don’t have during the season. I see. Okay. >> Yes. Oh, and then then when I really need somebody right around Christmas time, that’s when I go to the beer. Wait, it is Christmas time. No, >> we’re Yeah, we’re right there. We’re up against it. Uh, yeah. Thank you for having me, Chuck. I always You do so many hits on our shows. It’s nice to be uh nice to do a little home and home. >> It’s It’s Yeah, a little home and home series. Um, good to have you board here. Hey, uh, underwhelming off season so far for you or is this, uh, kind of what you expected so far from these guys? >> Well, that’s the thing. Like, in what world are we expecting anything else? You know, like I I listen to a lot of sports radio sometimes in other markets. So, if you listen to what, you know, Red Sox people are saying or Yankees people are saying, it’s like, if the Red Sox don’t bring back Bregman and get Alonzo and get an arm, it’s a catastrophe. And it’s like, man, if like, if we can just keep all the guys who are already here, you know what I mean? Like, our frame of reference is so different as Brewers fans. So, I it’s hard for me to be underwhelmed by an offseason because I don’t really ever expect them to do anything. I don’t expect them to, you know, go out and get a big time free agent. I suppose they could swing a trade. They did it with Yelich and you know we’ve we’ve seen it with Kane or one-year guys but that was you know 2018 2019. It’s just really rare. So no I wouldn’t say I’m underwhelmed. There’s just there’s just not a lot of activity that’s ever expected for our team this time of year. >> It almost hurts more when they make like one of these minor moves. Oh, the Brewers have just picked up a a pitcher who’s pitching over in Korea. Hasn’t pitched in the major leagues in five years, but he’s a former first round draft pick in 2014. Of course, >> let’s bring him in. Why not? you you would almost rather just have them do nothing than make us learn about some player who probably will never play or Yeah, I I know what you mean. Um but we need some roster or or somehow they’ll find themselves batting cleanup on a on a Wednesday afternoon at Amfan Field. >> One of the two. They’ll either be terrible or it’ll be September and this guy will be having a career year. It seems to be typically how it goes for our team. >> Or batting 229 yet we’re running that guy out there every day. just try to today’s the day he’s gonna turn it around. >> That role is reserved for Oliver Dunn who I guess is with the White Sox now. Those that role is typically reserved for in-house guys the first month of the year. They don’t have to import those guys typically. >> And shocking that he ended up with the White Socks, but Brewer doesn’t. >> Adrien Howser I Where did he sign? He got two years 22 million bucks. I saw that the other day. Good for him actually. It’s nice to see former Brewers go on to do great things. Hoping for that for Oliver Dunn. Wouldn’t hold my breath. But Adrien Howser making 22 million and being like a coveted free agent addition last trade deadline during the season was kind of a wild ride. It’s fun to keep up with these guys. >> Yeah. And the Brewers just kind of traded him to the Mets for a song a couple of years ago. >> Well, he was making four million Chuck. We’re not money like >> Yeah. Just unre Well, you know what? It’s funny. Um, I always like to look at the what other teams are doing obviously and see who who made the the stupid move of the off season. Yeah. So far, I mean, like the Yankees. Well, I mean, Yankees not resigning Williams was good for them, but the the Mets should know better. Three years, 50 million for Deon Williams. What are you thinking? >> Yeah, I I don’t know what the Mets are doing. I I David I have such a lovehate with David Sterns because I think he did some really good things and then I think the last couple years in Milwaukee he did a lot of dumb things or things that didn’t work and coasted off reputation a little bit and I I think it’s so Sterns I think he’s probably doing a good thing by letting some of these older expensive guys go. The problem is is they’re coming off one of their most disappointing seasons in franchise history. And they have this massive checkbook from which to spend. And Mets fans are wondering like, okay, well, what are you going to do? You know, what’s the backup plan if you’re going to let all these guys go, Allonzo included. And the one guy they added was Devin Williams, who was mostly bad last year. I actually think he’ll probably be pretty good because his stuff is still there, it seems. But it’s a funny optic for sure for David Sterns. >> I feel if they trade Freddy Peralta, the Brewers, I feel I’m going to be underwhelmed. Underwhelmed is the word today. Underwhelmed like it was with the Devin trade at first, the Corbin Burns trade. At first, when that trade comes across, it’s like that you couldn’t get more out of him. Could get more for him. >> And that makes sense. I I think the situations are maybe slightly different. I don’t remember how much Burns was set to make and I don’t remember how much Devin Williams was set to make. I feel pretty confident in saying both players were going to make sizably more than the 8 million that Freddy stands to make. >> I think Burn’s like 16, right? >> Yeah. So like double, right? So the Brewers have a little bit more motivation to move off of those contracts. It also doesn’t hurt that >> Burns stunk it up in a playoff game right, you know, right before they traded him and Deon Williams obviously did too. So I think we were ready to say goodbye to those guys. >> I I don’t expect to be underwhelmed by a return in any potential Freddy Peralta trade because I think the only way they’ll trade him is if they get something that they love. >> Whereas with Burns and Williams, it’s like, well, we’re moving on >> now. Let’s go see what we can get. I think the Brewers sit back with Peralt and say, “If you want to blow us away, cool. And we’ll do it. And if they get the right deal, they should because Peralta is great pitcher, important for the franchise, good contract, but not irreplaceable.” You know what I mean? He’s mostly five innings and a little bit of headache. And if you can get a great return for that, you can. But I don’t expect them to trade him to trade him. Um, so if they do trade him, I would expect to be probably impressed or or wellelmed at least, not underwhelmed, but maybe just wellelmed by the by the return. Do you think the Brewers are playing this? They’re playing this like this. Well, hey, a lot of interest for Freddy. Love to have him back in our rotation. We a lot of interest, but I’m I’m not bowled over by anything coming my way. I’m kind of paraphrasing Matt Arnold here, but that they really do want to trade him. >> I think they’re probably indifferent, and this is just pure spec speculation. You know, read what Rosenthal puts out. His what I’m hearing stories are always very interesting. And I think Will Sammon has had some juice to, you know, some more national guys. Although he spent time in Milwaukee, it seems like the door has been cracked open because the Brewers are just getting blown away. You know what I mean? Like that seems to be the the message that’s being pushed out there. So again, I if the Brewers trade Freddy Peralta, I think the reaction from many Brewers fans will be negative. It’ll be, well, they’re cheap. They didn’t want to pay him 8 million bucks. And I’m telling you, I don’t think that’ll be the case. If they trade Freddy Peralta, it’s because they were blown away by an offer. I think they I think they’re fine to pay him 8 million bucks and let them leave if they don’t get an offer they feel is is commensurate. I I don’t believe that was the case with Burns and Williams. I think they were ready to move off of those guys even if the return was, you know, fine. And I think the return for both of those guys probably was fine, but it didn’t blow us away. All right, when we come back, we’re take a quick break here. We’ll ask Grant about uh advancing in the postseason. Love the tweet he put out short time ago. We’ll get to that coming up next. Chuck Freeman here on Locked On Brewers. Locked on Brewers, part of Lock on Podcast Network. We are your team every day. And of course, the Everyday Club is here. It is here. Thanks for being a loyal follower of Locked on Brewers. Make it your first listen to Everyday. 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That alert you every time we drop an episode here on Lockdown Brewers. And I want to bring that Grant Bills Gran tweet that she had out short time ago. >> What did I tweet? >> I think this was right after the postseason. So the Brewers have figured out a way to win n I’m paraphrasing kind of Brewers have figured out a way to win 90 plus games, but they cannot figure out how to get hot for a simple sevengame stretch. That’s obviously you’re referring to the postseason. >> It is kind of nuts. Um because in theory the second thing should be easier, right? Shouldn’t it like it it should be easier >> to play the variance and get hot in a seven game sample than it is to win 90 plus games across 162. Now in order to do the second thing, you also have to be good enough at the first. Like in order to to get into a seven game series, you need to be good enough over 162 to get that opportunity. So I understand that both things are connected. It just it blows my mind and I I don’t really understand it how a team with a small budget, the smallest market has found a way to win 90 plus games consistently or 87 plus games consistently. >> But I’ve watched the Diamondbacks and teams like the Mets who weren’t really all that hot going into the playoffs two years ago. Like I’ve watched all these other teams say, “Okay, we can get hot for, you know, seven, 14, you know, postseason games.” And it hasn’t happened for the Brewers. It just feels like they’re beyond due. I I don’t think they’re that much lesser than some of these other teams we’ve seen get hot. I It almost just starts to feel like like bad luck, like the universe is against them a little bit. And I’m not saying they played their their best ball against the Dodgers. Far from it. But I keep thinking one of these years it’s going to click because it has to, right? You keep getting bites at the apple and it just hasn’t. Well, I just feel like with all our sports teams and you know, other teams in the state got their issues as well, but I feel like in the state it’s been like, hey, regular season, we’re destroying teams. We’re winning all these postseason awards. Get to the postseason, throw it is over. And and nobody is like that more than the Milwaukee Brewers, I feel. I mean, they just they’ll get every break. They’ll win 97 games. You know, when that game gets the extra innings or late night ninth inning, Brewers are going to find a way to win that game. But by goodness, they come up against the Dodgers in game, was it game one or game two that Terra was had the game one stranded the runner at the runners on base? The go-ahehead run on base. You just knew, you thought maybe regular season, you know, Terra comes up with a two-run single on a walk-off. >> Postseason goes down swinging. That’s it. And again, it’s, you know, maybe it’s a little explainable. You can win regular season games with base running, with good defense, with heady play. I’ll just say heady player. They have smart, good baseball players. They don’t just have athletes who have a lot of speed and a lot of power. They have guys who play the game of baseball and understand the game of baseball. And I don’t think that’s true of every team, even if they have talented, productive players. And I suppose you can win a lot of games over a regular season sample, but again, it’s not like they’re scratching and clawing their way to 82 wins. They’re winning 90 plus. You cannot be a bad team and win 90 plus games, you know, consistently. I don’t think you can do it once, but you know, let alone with the frequency the Brewers have. Sure, they lack a little power. So, yeah, that that makes it harder to win in the postseason, but it’s not like Contrarus, Cherio. Yeah, I mean, Yelich, good grief. It’s not like they had no power threats on their team, and they just didn’t even seem close. And what I think is really frustrating, Chuck, just to speak to another big trend, and you’re talking about the 162 game sample versus the seven game sample. It’s hilarious that the Brewers won their first playoff series since 2018, this calendar year, >> and it feels like the Brewers are further away from winning a World Series than ever before. You know what I mean? Like, they just had their most successful postseason in, you know, getting getting close to a decade of this era post 2018, and it feels more hopeless than ever, which is a bizarre dynamic, but that’s just the feeling that many were left with after the Dodgers series. But even when they win a series in the postseason, it’s like never easy. >> Like even go back to to you go back to 82 fivegame series against um the Angels 2011. They won the first two against Arizona. Had to come back home after losing two there and and beat them. Colorado, they swept that series and then this one. >> Yeah, but even the the first game they had the lead, right? And then it blew like there were even stressful moments in that series. I didn’t remember they swept, but I remember or the Rockies. Yeah. And they it didn’t go to extras, but it was the ninth and Jeffers kind of made us think of it. Like you’re right about it never being easy, but then again, it’s the playoffs, you know what I mean? Like it shouldn’t be easy. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. It’s But I don’t know. I just feel like even the postseason, it’s a it’s a it’s a struggle. So, how do we get over that hump? That’s the million-dollar question. I get asked this all the time the clubhouse store and people say how can the Brewers finally okay they want a playoff series against the Cells but how can they get to the World Series? How can they get past the Dodgers? >> Um brilliant question. Well, I would start with players like Contraras Yelich and this year Vaughn too. I think you lump them in there. Cheerio, you need those guys to be big in big games and in big moments. Um, and Yelich was not and has not been. And Cheurio had I I don’t remember Cheurio’s performance exactly. He was brilliant last year and I know he was nicked up a little bit. Contras had some moments against the Cubs and that was kind of it. >> Um, you need your best player. You need your best players who are capable of hitting for power. They’re not all Pete Alonzo, but those guys are capable of hitting for power. >> You need them to not go quiet. >> And that’s really been a struggle. It was especially a struggle against the Dodgers. And also think I they got tight. It’s like they kind of forgot how they had played all year long and which is weird. They shouldn’t I I I don’t expect that of a Pat Murphy team. They’re not they’re not a bund, you know, mental minis, I will say, because I don’t know that the other word is politically correct. I I I don’t know how that happened to him last year. If it was the star power of LA, if Snell mowed him down in game one and then they just never recovered at the plate. I don’t know. But I would start with your star players playing their best when it matters most. And I guess that starts with Yelich and he’s been anything but that. Yeah. And he’s not going anywhere because uh he’s like a son to Mark Anthonyio. >> Yeah. Uh you would be correct. >> Shorts stop position. Before I let you go, shortstop position is Ortiz the starting shortstop going forward. Think they’ll move him? Will they bring somebody else in? Move around a little bit. Um I thought the Braves overpaid for Kim. I mean I was not going to give him 20 million for a year. What do you see? >> I’d give him a million. I’d give him 20 mill. I’d give anyone anything for one year. You know what I mean? Like if if it’s a player that you love, 20 million is a bit much. >> That guy is not worth 20 million, though. >> No, but I but I would, you know, I I think he starts the year at short. I’ve I’ve talked to nobody. It’s not sourced at all. Yeah. My guess would be is it’s his starting job at the beginning of the year and it’s his job to lose. >> Um I I really have a difficult time imagining this team going through an entire season again with that type of offensive output at shortstop. I like Durban enough, but you’re not getting a bunch of home runs, which limits you. And Terra I I think is just Terra. Like I don’t know that the the offensive combination of those three is enough. So I think it’s Ortiz’s job to start the year and it then it becomes his job to lose. And maybe you could, you know, you could swing something like they did in 2021 for Adamus. After two months, it was clear that, you know, that RCA wasn’t going to cut the mustard and they must have identified Adamus as someone that they had probably liked for a while and they probably had that possibility in the back of their head. I would imagine the Brewers probably have some guys around baseball. It’s like, well, we like him. We’ve always been interested with him >> and if Ortiz stinks up the joint for the first month, maybe then that’s something that they look into, but I think it’s his job to lose as the year begins. I would expect him to start the year at short. Yeah, >> Grant, I know you got a show to do. Appreciate you coming on as always. Have yourself a great holidays, my friend. >> Uh, thank you, Chuck, as well. Let’s hit a golf simulator soon. >> Yeah, golf course. Golf simulator. I’m always up for that. Take it easy, my friend. That’s Grant Bills joining us from the Wisco Sports Show 4 to 6 throughout the state. This is Chuck Freeman. 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  1. I think it was just a few weeks ago when you went off on a rant that Peralta wasn't going anywhere and shame on the national media for pushing this narrative! Classic Chuck! At least you seem to be coming along to the reality of all this. I predicted here, on more than one occasion, this is going to happen. It was a done deal as soon as Woodruff took the offer. I would be surprised if Peralta is the only big name traded. My gut is the Brewers aren't playing for the 2026 season (they were barely good enough to get past the Cubs even with Peralta last season). I think this team is focused on a big trade, another year of farm system development to get all these top picks ready, and additional maturity of their current core to get them to 2027. Plenty of time to evolve their SS and 1st base situations. Maybe catcher as I don't see the Brewers paying Contreras 2027–and he might be gone long beforehand.

  2. This is where the logic really breaks down.

    Trading Freddy Peralta and criticizing “bargain-bin” moves ignores how the Brewers have actually stayed competitive. Elite, controllable pitching is the hardest thing to replace in this market — it’s the foundation that allows everything else to work.

    You don’t fix October variance by tearing out the rotation or chasing splash contracts. You fix it by getting in every year with depth, then letting one hot stretch line up. That’s how the Brewers have built 7 playoff appearances in 10 years without collapsing.

    Calling that strategy “underwhelming” while proposing big swings that shorten the window feels less like analysis and more like chasing a narrative

  3. At some point this stops sounding like analysis and starts sounding like predetermined framing. Every move is either “underwhelming” or “not aggressive enough,” even though this approach has produced the most successful decade of Brewers baseball ever.

    If the takeaway from 7 playoff appearances in 10 years is still panic and blockbuster hypotheticals, that feels more like click-driven urgency than roster evaluation.

  4. The problem with Brewers from other small market teams that went farther in post season is just one big difference: no super stars , or say no healthy super stars, or not enough of minimum superstars needed.

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