{"id":596984,"date":"2026-02-27T22:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/596984\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:57:22","slug":"mets-tab-freddy-peralta-to-start-opening-day-vs-pirates-after-blockbuster-offseason-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/596984\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets tab Freddy Peralta to start Opening Day vs. Pirates after blockbuster offseason trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUPITER, Fla. \u2013 The Mets\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/21\/sports\/mets-freddy-peralta-believes-he-hasnt-reached-his-peak\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highest-profile pitching acquisition<\/a> this offseason will get the ball on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Peralta, who was set for his Mets debut Friday in an exhibition game, is lined up to pitch the team\u2019s season opener on March 26 at Citi Field, according to manager Carlos Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as we acquired him it was clear he was going to be pitching at the front of our rotation,\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cHe earned it. He\u2019s done it and we are all excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38622630\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/new-york-mets-pitcher-freddy-121902389.jpg\" alt=\"New York Mets Pitcher Freddy Peralta jogging during spring training.\" class=\"wp-image-38622630\"  \/>Freddy Peralta\u2019s Mets debut will come in the opener. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sports\/mets-in-deep-talks-to-acquire-freddy-peralta-from-brewers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mets landed Peralta<\/a>, along with Tobias Myers, in a January trade that sent Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams to the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Skenes, the reigning National League Cy Young award winner, is expected to be Peralta\u2019s mound opponent for the Pirates in the season opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JUPITER, Fla. \u2013 The Mets\u2019 highest-profile pitching acquisition this offseason will get the ball on Opening Day. Freddy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,753,4,61,64,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-596984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-freddy-peralta","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116145071922839330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596984","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=596984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}