{"id":597079,"date":"2026-02-27T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/597079\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:59:46","slug":"mets-right-hander-freddy-peralta-to-start-march-26-opener-against-pirates-butler-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/597079\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets right-hander Freddy Peralta to start March 26 opener against Pirates \u2013 Butler Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York Mets starting pitcher Freddy Peralta is the announced opening day starter against the Pittsburgh Pirates on March 26. Associated Press<\/p>\n

JUPITER, Fla. \u2014 The New York Mets plan<\/a> to put newly acquired ace Freddy Peralta<\/a> on the mound against Pittsburgh on opening day.<\/p>\n

New York<\/a> traded two prospects to Milwaukee last month for the two-time All-Star.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we acquired him, it was pretty clear that he was going to be pitching at the front of our rotation,\u201d Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said Friday before Peralta had three strikeouts in three innings against St. Louis in a spring training<\/a> game. \u201cHe earned it. I’m excited. We’re all excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York opens March 26 at home.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old right-hander gives the new-look Mets a frontline starter after their rotation struggled in the second half of a disappointing 2025 season. They also signed free agent infielder Bo Bichette<\/a> and acquired center fielder Luis Robert Jr. in a trade with the Chicago White Sox.<\/a><\/p>\n

Peralta was 17-6 with a 2.70 ERA in 33 starts last season, when he led the National League in wins and finished fifth in Cy Young Award voting. He struck out 204 in 176 2\/3 innings and earned his second All-Star selection.<\/p>\n

Peralta is set to make $8 million this season<\/a> and can become a free agent following the World Series. He is 70-42 with a 3.59 ERA and 1,153 strikeouts in 931 innings over eight major league seasons, all with Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Mets starting pitcher Freddy Peralta is the announced opening day starter against the Pittsburgh Pirates on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,9331,9323,9318,9338,9344,9347,9322,9326,9324,1242,9325,9330,9321,9343,9337,9320,9341,9329,9319,9332,1358,9345,4,9335,169,6423,3838,9336,10,776,64,4297,7502,9327,9340,9339,9328,9346,9334,9333,9342],"class_list":["post-597079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mlb","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-news","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597079","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=597079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}