Baltimore Orioles Starting Pitcher Trade Wish List: Freddy Peralta, Kris Bubic, Joe Ryan
The Orioles are certainly trying to add a top starting pitcher via free agency, but they’re also looking into the trade route. Who are some of the best starters available on the trade market this off season? We’ll talk about that coming up on this episode of the Locked On Orioles podcast. You are Locked On Orioles, your daily Baltimore Orioles podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. Hey there, Orioles fans. Today is Friday, December 5th, 2025, and welcome back in to the Locked On Orioles podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. As always, I’m your host, Connor Nukem. And coming up on today’s episode, we’re going to talk about some of the best trade candidates among the starting pitchers that are out there this off seasonason. Cuz the Orioles certainly are in play for a lot of the big free agent pitching names. We’ve heard them already connected to guys like Bravald and Tatsuya, but they’ve also been a team that has done better when acquiring starting pitching via the trade. the big ones that come up over the last couple of years, finding a way to get Corbin Burns and Trevor Rogers via trade and those guys turning into ace type pitchers for the Orioles in the next year. So, who could be the next version of Burns or Rogers? I’ll give you my wish list of six pitchers who are at least available in trade this off season that the Orioles could try and get. But that’s all coming up on this episode of the Locked on Orioles podcast, which is part of the Locked on Podcast Network, now the number one sports podcast network. And this episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code locked on MLB for $20 off your first purchase. So, it’s a wish list episode. Now, remember, there are more than these six pitchers who may be dealt or at least rumored to be dealt by teams this off seasonason, but this is my top six wish list. If you haven’t, you know, checked out any of the four episodes we’ve done prior this week or even in the last week, doing some of these wish lists for the off seasonason, taking six players from a certain position. It’s not exactly just a rank one through six of the six best, most talented players out there. It also has to do with how much I like them, how much money they might be making, how they fit with the Orioles, and also when you’re talking about trades, how many years of team control they have left certainly plays into this as well. So, let’s begin the wish list with number six. And number six on my list is 26-year-old left-handed pitcher from the Washington Nationals, McKenzie Gore. Now, at one point, Gore was a big-time name coming over to the Nationals in a trade when they were playing the role of seller. Gore was a former first round pick of the Padres’s who debuted with San Diego back in 2022. But that after that season was traded to the Nationals along with a bunch of other prospects in the Juan Sodto deal. And Gore at this point is finding himself on the other end of it because the Nats haven’t come out of their rebuild as Gore has been a part of their team. He’ll still only be 27 years old in February and he does have two years of team control left. He will not be a free agent till after 2027. He’s projected by MLB Trade Rumors to make $4.7 million in 2026 in arbitration. That’s pretty cheap. That number will go up in 2027, but you know, maybe to around, you know, 10 or 11 million. and he’s still going to be super cheap in that final year as well. Now, Gore has been solid. He’s made 30 plus starts in each of the last two seasons with the Nationals, though he has not even eclipsed 170 innings in either of those seasons. Over the two years, the 403 RA, a 356 fip with a 26% strikeout rate, and a 9% walk rate. He’s been solid. He definitely saw his stuff drop off this year, but overall, it’s still solid stuff from the left side. kind of an over-the-top delivery with a 14 seam fast ball at 95. And then he’s got a curveball, slider, change up, and cutter that all have swing and miss rates, at least this season, of over 35%. Which is really elite for a starting pitcher to have that many pitches with that many whiffs. He he gets a ton of swing and miss overall in his game. And you could maybe argue he should throw fewer for four seam fast balls. It might be his worst pitch, yet he threw it 49% of the time with the Nats in 2025. Maybe some usage changes could turn things around a little bit for Gore. But I think really the real problem has just been consistency for McKenzie Gore and maybe some endurance. Like he ended up posting a 4.17 erra over 30 starts in 159 and two/3 innings in 2025. Not a terrible season, not a great season, kind of somewhere in the middle. But the talent he flashes is someone much better than the 417 erra that he posted. But for the last two years, he’s kind of started red-hot and then has fallen off as the season’s gone on. This year, he had a 302 erra in the first half and then a 6.75 ERA after the All-Star break. In 2024, it was a little different, but he had a 2.91 ERA in the first two months of the season. Then in the next three months, June through August, he had a 558 ERA. Now, he did bounce back and have an awesome September in 2024, so it’s not like a perfect he’s great in the first half, terrible in the second half, but it generally cuts out like that. And he seems like he’s kind of been running out of gas. He did have a short stint on the IIL this year with a shoulder injury as well, so he missed a couple of starts. He has lost fastball velocity as the season has gone on each of the last two years. That certainly plays a part. So, he’s got the tools and again, he’s still only 26 years old. He is the youngest pitcher that’s going to be on this list. He has those two cheap years of control instead of him being just a rental. He’s a lefty. He should be kind of checking off all the boxes. But when you add in the shoulder stuff with the worries about can he really put together a full season as a starting pitcher? Like he’s never even pitched 170 innings and he’s been in the big leagues for four years, that concerns you a little bit. And Jeff Passing reported at ESPN that the Nationals have discussed a Mackenzie Gore trade with multiple teams. Also reported it’s still a high asking price, which makes sense. But if you can figure out a way to keep him on track and healthier and and stronger for a full season, that’s two good years of a guy who’s absolutely going to help your rotation. There’s just a lot of questions around him still. I would say, you know, I’m not great at giving out offers for fair trades. You know, the Nats need a catcher. Maybe you start the offer with Ike Irish, the Orioles first round pick from 2025, and kind of dare them to say no, and then you you kind of go from there. Number five on my list is 28-year-old left-handed pitcher Chris Bubich from the Kansas City Royals, who would be a rental. He would be a free agent after the 2026 season and is due to make about $6 million in arbitration this year before he hits free agency for the first time. Now, Chris Bubich came up as a starting pitcher with the Royals and was not a very good one for three years from 2020 to 2022. Then after three starts in 2023, he got Tommy John surgery and we did not see him on the mound again until July of the 2024 season when the Royals, who were playing well, they had a really good fiveman rotation going, decided to bring Bubich back as a reliever because they needed some bullpen help to try and get that team to the postseason. And Bubich became one of the Royals most important relief pitchers down the stretch. He threw 30 innings out of the pen in the final, you know, two and a half months. had a 267 erra, a 1 191 fip. He had a 32% strikeout rate to a 4% walk rate, 56% ground balls. He was one of the best lefty relievers in all of baseball. He returned on July 7th of 2024 and was put in the bullpen. From that point of the season on, among major league relief pitchers, he was 10th in fifth, second in expected ERA, fifth in X-Fip, and when you just cut it down to the lefty relievers. All told, he was probably the second best left-handed reliever in baseball down the stretch after he rejoined the bullpen. But of course, the Orioles wouldn’t be acquiring him to be a reliever. It would be to be a starter. And the Royals once they felt he was fully healthy moved him back into the rotation to begin the 2025 season. And he was awesome. 255 ERA in the 20 starts he made for the Royals. He was eighth among starting pitchers this year in ERA among guys who threw at least 110 big league innings. His stuff did go back down a tick, right? VO went down a little bit, but that’s to be expected when you go from the bullpen back to being a starter. It’s a fast ball at 92, but it still gets great ride from an interesting arm slot. It really, really plays up that riding action on that pitch. He’s got a change up and a sweeper that both had a batting average under 200 and a slugging percentage under 290 against them this year. And then we’ll toss in a sinker and a slider to go with those pitches as well. Really, the big red flag for Chris Bouvich is a he hasn’t really done it a whole lot, right? like the the seasons where he was making 27 starts back in 2022. I mean, it was a 5.58 erra. We’ve seen him be good as a reliever and we saw him be good as a starter, but he only made 20 starts this season because of injury. And that’s why despite being cheap and despite being good, he’s down here at number five on the list. He suffered a left rotator cuff strain in his shoulder in July and missed the remainder of the Royals season. Now, he didn’t need surgery, which is a good sign, and he is, according to the Royals, is already throwing again this off seasonason is is looking to be on track and ready to go for spring training. But having that rotator cuff injury is still a big question mark. And we’re kind of at the point for pitchers in Major League Baseball where shoulders are almost more concerning than elbow issues. Now, it was reported in November that teams are calling the Royals about Bubich, and the Royals are willing to move him. And the recent reporting says that the Royals want to move a starting pitcher in exchange for an outfielder at some point this off seasonason. I think, you know, if you ate most of Tyler O’Neal’s contract and added in a solid prospect, that could maybe get you Chris Bouvich or at least one year of Bouvich from the Royals. All right, let’s move into top four on my list. Let’s get to number four and number three. Two veterans who used to be teammates. Maybe the Orioles could bring them both in and have them be teammates again. We’ll get to four and three on the list coming up next. But first, this episode of the Locked Orioles podcast is brought to you by Game Time. The World Cup is coming back to North America for the first time since 1994. And with 48 teams in it for the first time ever, it’s going to be massive. But let’s be honest, getting tickets, well, that is usually the hardest part. That’s why Game Time and the Game Time app is clutch. Finally giving fans a real advantage when it comes to snagging seats. 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Number four on my list for the Orioles is going to be someone that I think a lot of us, including myself, had wanted the O’s to trade for for a long, long time, and that is 29-year-old Minnesota Twins right-handed pitcher Pablo Lopez, who will be 30 in March. Has two years remaining on his deal. He’s a free agent after 2027. He will make $21.75 million in each of the next two seasons before he hits free agency. Now, Pablo Lopez, I think the O’s wanted him. The last time he was traded, he was dealt from the Marlins to the Twins after the 2022 season. And then after 2023, he signed a three-year extension to add some years to his deal. Now, from 2022 to 24, his last year with the Marlins and his first two with the Twins, he was the picture of durability. He averaged 32 starts a year, averaged 186 innings pitched a year, and posted a 3.83 83 erra over that stretch. Not a true number one ace, but like a really good number two to three guy that you want in your rotation. He was seventh in Major League Baseball on innings pitch, 10th in F4 among starting pitchers in that stretch. And then he came back in 2025 this year with the Twins. And he looked like he was putting together his best season ever until injuries hit. In total, he made just 14 starts, but he had what would have been a career-l 2.74 ERA with the Twins. He had a little bit of a hamstring issue in April that took him out for a couple of weeks. He came back, but then it was the shoulder strain, a right shoulder strain in June, kept him out for about 3 months. He returned in September to make three starts and they went pretty well. It was a 240 erra in those three starts, but then went back on the injured list with a forearm strain in late September that ended his season. Now, when he came back from the shoulder, his command was good, but his stuff was certainly down. VO wasn’t down much, but the stuff plus ratings were not looking great. Normally, you’ll see him with a four seam fast ball at 95 with a sweeper, change up, curveball, and sinker to go with it. That change up’s got a lot of good movement. Helps him get a lot of opposite-handed, you know, left-handed batters out. And there’s still a ton of upside with Pablo Lopez. He only turning 30. He suppresses hard contact really well. You know, low hard hit rates, low barrel rates. Last year, gets a ton of chase outside the zone, which helps him with that, especially with that change up. But the injuries are scary and like I think Pablo Lopez is awesome, but that’s why he’s all the way down at number four on my list. I am just concerned about him having a shoulder and a forearm thing this year. Now, Twins GM Derrick Falv did say in November that Lopez is fully healthy and expected to be ready for spring training in 2026. That’s certainly a positive injury note, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that he has shoulder and a forearm thing in the same season and is about to turn 30. like that’s that’s concerning. Now, the latest report from the Twins that Falv quote has not given serious consideration to trading Pablo Lopez or Joe Ryan, who we might talk about later, but I think the assumption around the game is the Twins are going to deal one of these two pitchers, whether it’s Ryan or Lopez, as they, you know, they traded away a lot of big league talent as sellers at the 2025 deadline. Doesn’t seem like they’re going to be big spenders to add to the team this off seasonason. there was kind of a sale coming and then not a sale coming in terms of ownership, but they were slashing payroll. They have a new manager. It’s a weird situation in Minnesota. They’re always going to be in it because the AL Central, you know, even with the Guardians playing like they have recently is still weak. But I just I don’t know. I don’t know if I believe Faly if he’s saying he’s not going to trade him. I really feel like they’re going to trade one of these two pitchers. We’ll see if Lopez is available. The Orioles should absolutely be in those talks. He’s so so talented. It’s just, man, he had been so durable and then a couple injuries pop up and you just get worried something’s going to snap in there. Speaking of injuries, number three on my list is Pablo Lopez’s old Marlins teammate. That is 30-year-old Miami right-hander Sandy Alcantra, who also has two years remaining on his deal. He will be a free agent after 2027. He’ll make $17.3 million in 2026. And then he does have a $21 million team option for 2027. But as long as he pitched well in 26, that’s that’s the price of pitching. That option would absolutely be picked up to have him on honestly not crazy expensive for one more year. Now, I think we know Sandy Alcantra. He was the NL Sai Young Award winner in 2022. He amassed 228 and two/3 innings with a 228 erra. He was just incredible that season. One of the most amazing pitching seasons we’ve seen in years. I mean really for three years there from 21 to 23 was just eating innings for the Marlins but then the injury came late in 2023. Tried to pitch through it couldn’t and got Tommy John surgery in October of 2023. Now he missed the entirety of the 2024 season but was a full go and seemed to be ready to begin 2025. And he did have a pretty big workload for a guy coming off Tommy John. He made 31 starts. He threw about 175 innings this year for the Marlins. However, he just didn’t look like the same pitcher. He posted a 5.36 erra with a 428 fip. So, definitely the luck was not on his side. Strikeouts were down, walks were up, the ground balls that he relies on, that rate was down as well. And his erra was over eight at the end of May and it looked like a complete disaster. But Alcantra got better as the season went on. And for a lot of guys, the data shows that actually that second season after they’re back from Tommy John surgery is really when they truly regain their true form. And maybe that would be good for a team that would try to acquire Alcantra this off season that he could finally be fully back. And he did get better again as the season went on. From in the first two months of the year, he had an 8.47 ERA. In June and July, it was a 4.5 ERA. So, not the same Sandy, but still good, or at least not good, still better. And then in August and September, the final two months of the year, he had a 3.7 erra with his strikeout to walk ratio back to what it kind of used to be and the ground ball rate up. And overall, like the stuff and the velocity, it was really kind of there for most of the season. It was what it was or almost what it was pre-Tommy John surgery. Like, he’s still throwing sinkers and four seamers 97 to 98 with the change up curveball and slider to go with it. He actually started throwing more change ups in those final two months of the year and it was working well. And you know he made 10 starts in those final two months. Only one of them was less than six innings. He was throwing basically six or seven innings every single night which was usual usual Sandy. And really if you want to cut it down even further like his first two starts of August were pretty bad. So if you cut it to those final eight starts of the season, he posted a 2.68 RA in those final eight starts. That’s like Sai Young level Sandy that we saw at the end of the year and that is the last we saw of Alcantra. He he really did look like his pre-surgery self in those last six weeks of the season and that really makes you feel good about him going forward. Here’s the issue though. A he’s a little more expensive than these other guys. Now he’s still cheaper than what a free agent pitcher would be and he has ace upside. We’ve seen him win a sai young. he’s this low on the list at number three because a 5.36 season erra is still not nice to look at. But it’s also because the latest report from the Marlins said the Marlins quote expect Sandy Alcantra to be on their team on opening day 2026. I mean, they were a lot better than they thought in 2025. I think they’re expecting to compete next season, which originally was not the plan. I mean, he’d been rumored throughout the entirety of the 2025 season, it felt like, to be traded, and a deal could absolutely still happen this off seasonason, but I do think it’s a little less likely now that the Marlins were kind of better than expected this year. I think if they got an offer they liked on either him or the younger Edward Cabrera, I still think they’d make the move if they thought they could get kind of major league ready talent back that would still help them in 2026 and, you know, would be a free agent beyond 27 and they they’d have more control of than Alcantra. I think they would absolutely do it. So, the the Orioles would have to match up with them on another deal like they did with the Sters and Norby for Rogers deal, but we will see. I think he’s still out there. There’s been too many talks with him for him to not at least being considered to get traded. And I think what we saw at the end of the year was the old Sandy, which despite an RA over five is why I have him up at number three. But we’ll get a little bit younger for the next two pitchers on the list. Just a little bit. couple of 29year-old right-handers who have ace t type stuff when you see them out there. 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They swing and miss a lot. It’s got a 107 stuff plus. He throws it over 50% of the time. It’s kind of a unique arm angle, unique approach angle with some solid ride. Just makes it super elite. Especially when Ryan is able to locate that pitch up in the zone. It’s either a swing and miss, a foul ball, or a lazy popup. When he can throw that thing right at the top of the strike zone, it makes him really good. He adds in a sweeper, a splitter, a sinker, slider, and a curveball. It’s a pretty wide mix for the 29year-old righty. And he uses all those pitches to throw strikes. He runs, you know, some minuscule walk rates. I mean, this season for the Twins, 30 starts, 171 innings, 342 RA was a great year. And it was a 28% strikeout rate to a 5.7% walk rate. That was after a 4.3% walk rate back in 2024 and a 5.1% walk rate in 2023. This guy, it’s not quite Zack Efflin level, but it’s close in terms of I hate walking guys. And the difference between someone like Joe Ryan and Zack Efflin is that Joe Ryan has the strikeout upside and the swing and miss ape a ace upside that really a guy like Efflin even if he’s healthy doesn’t really have at this point in his career. Now the funny thing with Ryan is I mean I think you could make a strong argument that he did put it all together this year. I mean when you post a 342 erra in 30 starts that’s a really really good season. Joe Ryan had a really, really good season in Minnesota, but it still feels like he hasn’t reached that full potential. He made only 23 starts in 2024 due to a shoulder strain, but did recover and seem to be fully healthy this season. So, that’s a good sign. It was the first time he’d ever made 30 starts in a year. But, he just feels like there’s a it’s a guy where there’s so much to unlock, right? He’d still be cheap. He’d still have two years remaining. And if you can get a repeat of 2025 in the next two years, if you can get 170 innings of three, four erra, you’re set. That’s a fantastic addition to your rotation, a guy that you would feel comfortable starting a playoff game. I think those are the kind of guys with that team control, right? Having more than one year so you don’t have to do this all over again next offseason. Those are all good things the Orioles should be looking for. It’s just that there’s I really wanted to put a number one. Like the fast ball is so so good. It had a plus 15 run value on the four seamer. It’s a great strikeout rate. a great walk rate. He gets awesome extension down the mound. He just there’s something that hasn’t quite been there yet for Joe Ryan that makes you say like, “Oh yeah, he’s a slam dunk number one.” And even with him having the two years of control, which is nice, unlike the guy that’s number one on my list, I just couldn’t quite put him at number one. And that’s because at number one, I have 29-year-old Milwaukee Brewers right-handed pitcher Freddy Peralta, who is a rental. He’ll be a free agent after 2026. You only get him for one year and he is due $8 million in 2026. He had a club option for this season which was obviously picked up by the Brewers. A cheap option for a pitcher this good and he’s just been really really good for the Brewers basically for five years now as a starter. He’s never gotten to 180 innings and that’s something to think about. But he’s made 30 or more starts in three consecutive seasons. That is a really good bill of health. He’s 12th in erra among starting pitchers who have thrown at least 500 innings over the last five seasons. It’s a 323 erra in that stretch. And the last time he was on the injured list, it was a couple of weeks he missed in September of 2022 for shoulder inflammation. Has basically been fully or almost fully healthy since then. And he’s coming off maybe his best season. 33 starts, a careerhigh, 176 and two-thirds innings, a careerhigh. and he posted a career-l 2.70 erra on the year to go along with a 28% strikeout rate, a 9% walk rate, opponents hit 191 against Peralta this year. Like he was really really good as the ace of a Brewers team who won the most games in Major League Baseball this year. Like that’s that I think he is a true number one. Now again, he’s a guy you’d be trading for similar to when they made the tra trade with the Brewers for Corbin Burns. Now Burns is better. Burns at that point was better than Freddy Peralta is at this point. That is just a fact. But you’re getting him for only one year and you have to feel comfortable that either you’ll get enough out of the one year or that maybe you can extend him or resign him. And Peralta could be a guy that I could see the Orioles trading for and immediately give an an extension to. I I think that would be kind of the perfect play here from the Orioles. That’s also why he’s number one despite only being a one-year guy is that I think he’s someone the O’s could get a deal done with after they would go and potentially trade for him. Like he does give up maybe a few too many fly balls which makes him susceptibles to some bad home run luck, but he’s good at suppressing hard contact. He had a hard hit rate under 35% this year. That’s pretty good. It’s a four seam fast ball that he throws at pretty high velocity, 95 plus for a starter. He adds in a slider and a curveball that Grade out has really good pitches. And he throws his change up a lot as well against lefties. I mean, all three of the secondaries, change up, slider, curveball. Opponents hit under 190 against them this season with a swing and miss rate of at least 34%. That’s great data. I mean, the slider, he only throws 9% of the time, but opponents swing and miss more than half the time against it. Maybe it’s a pitch he wants to throw a little bit more because it’s so good. To me, you know, Peralta still has has his flaws, right? He’s he is not Corbin Burns. He comes from the same team. He was the ace of the same team. He’s being dangled in trade talks and he has one year left. So that’s a good comparison to Burns. But Burns is just a better pitcher. Doesn’t mean Freddy Peralta doesn’t have ace type stuff and absolutely showed it with Milwaukee in 2025. And it’s not like he broke out onto the scene in 25. He had been a good starter, an absolutely good starter for the four years before that. It’s just this year, I think, with the availability and the RA, he he took himself to a different level this season. Now, the question is, Connor, why would a Brewers team that went to the NLCS want to be trading away their ace, who only cost him $8 million? Well, they had Brandon Woodruff accept the qualifying offer. So, they’re paying him 22 million next year, and that’s more than they want to play any player. Christian Yellish is making like 26 or 28 million. That’s a lot of payroll for Milwaukee, who barely spends any money each season. That’s the reason why they traded Corbin Burns to the Orioles a couple years ago. And the latest reporting, even though initially the Brewers said, “Hey, Woodruff coming back doesn’t mean we’re going to trade Peralta.” Well, the latest reporting said the Brewers are quote now leaving the door open for a Freddy Freddy Peralta trade. That tells me that teams are having serious discussions with Milwaukee at this point. Like, he’s a cheap ace a and maybe you could do a trade that’s that’s similar to Burns again, like not as good, but also cheaper. Kobe Mayo, Kade Kovichic, and maybe uh another lesser prospect. Could that get you Freddy Peralta? Could it be a draft pick plus Kobe Mayo? Something like that. You know, it was a a pick DL Hall and Joey Ortiz that got them Corbin Burns. I would be targeting Freddy Peralta. I would be doing honestly whatever it takes to get Freddy Peralta. And again, I think he’s a guy you could trade for him. You could extend him even before he gets to opening day. And I think if the O’s made that move, right, if you traded Freddy Peralta and then gave him a a five-year extension or a four-year extension after that, that would do a lot of good just I think among not only would it make the Orioles better, not just for next year, but for years beyond. I think it would do a lot of good for this fan base kind of trusting the front office, the ownership, Elias Rubenstein to be doing right to make this team better. You add a Freddy Peralta like that and you go out in free agency and you, you know, you sign a Mel Kelly type or whatever, like you could end the off seasonason right there and feel pretty good. Maybe, maybe add one more reliever, but then feel pretty good about where this team is sitting right there. So, that’s kind of the dream scenario, Freddy Peralta, but would certainly be happy if any of the six pitchers on this list were added by the Orioles. Let me know here in the comments, though, who I missed. You know, there’s a couple guys I left off the list that you’d like to see the Orioles make a trade for. That’ll do it for today. That’ll do it for this week on the podcast. We’ve got a ton of fun coming up next week. So, make sure you like, comment, and subscribe to the Lockown Orioles YouTube channel. We are pushing towards 10,000 subscribers here. The goal is to get to 10,000 subscribers on YouTube by the new year. If we do, I’ll do a cool giveaway on the show for subscribers only. So, make sure to help out with that. If you’re a listener, hit that follow button, hit that subscribe button. 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The Baltimore Orioles could find their new ace via trade this offseason. Host Connor Newcomb breaks down the best starting pitchers on the trade market this offseason, including Freddy Peralta, Sandy Alcantara, and Joe Ryan.
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