{"id":532796,"date":"2026-01-22T16:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/532796\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:04:16","slug":"brewers-gm-thinks-he-ruined-david-stearns-anniversary-dinner-with-blockbuster-mets-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/532796\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers GM thinks he \u2018ruined\u2019 David Stearns\u2019 anniversary dinner with blockbuster Mets trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hopefully David Stearns and his wife had an early anniversary dinner Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Brewers president Matt Arnold claimed the two pals completed their blockbuster Freddy Peralta trade<\/a> on the day of the Mets\u2019 president of baseball operations\u2019 wedding anniversary to his wife, Whitney Ann Lee.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows the players well. He and I have worked very well together for many years. Obviously care about him a lot,\u201d Arnold said, according to the Journal Sentinel<\/a>. \u201c(Wednesday)\u2019s his anniversary and I was at his wedding. We go back a long way. I think I might have ruined his anniversary dinner. He\u2019s a dear friend and hopefully these are the types of trades that work out for both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Stearns and his wife, Whitney Ann Lee. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

The life of a baseball partner can be difficult due to the long hours and the never-ending season and offseason, with holidays, anniversaries and birthdays sometimes coming second.<\/p>\n

Stearns and Lee married in 2017, when he was the Brewers\u2019 general manager, and they have at least one child together<\/a>, daughter Nora, born in 2018.<\/p>\n

We assume that Arnold and Stearns had made plenty of progress before finally pushing this trade past the finish line Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Mets needed a frontline pitcher and acquired Peralta, who posted a career-best 2.70 ERA spanning 33 starts last year.<\/p>\n

Peralta has one year left on his contract, and the Mets capitalized on Milwaukee\u2019s small-market operation that largely prevents them from signing star players to nine-figure contract extensions.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say Peralta came cheap.<\/p>\n

\"MilwaukeeBrewers general manager Matt Arnold. AP<\/p>\n

The Mets parted ways with MLB.com\u2019s No. 30 prospect in infielder Jett Williams and starter Brandon Sproat, whom Baseball America ranked No. 81<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee also sent swingman Tobias Meyers to the Mets.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reality is we have one year left with Freddy Peralta. He\u2019s a free agent at the end of the season. That\u2019s always going to be a challenge for us,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had to make these tough decisions. To add two players that we like and have them as a part of this group this season and well beyond that is something that we felt is very good for the Milwaukee Brewers.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Mets, this move likely puts a bow on their offseason after a January flurry including Bo Bichette, Luis Robert Jr. and now Peralta.<\/p>\n

\u201cAcquiring Freddy adds another established starter to help lead our rotation,\u201d Stearns said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThroughout the off season, we sought to complement our rotation with another front-end pitcher, and we\u2019re thrilled we are able to bring Freddy to the Mets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hopefully David Stearns and his wife had an early anniversary dinner Wednesday night. Brewers president Matt Arnold claimed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,9411,753,101,59,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-532796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-david-stearns","10":"tag-freddy-peralta","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkmets","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115939605919837025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}