PHOENIX \u2014 MLB Network was in the midst of \u201cWalkoff Wednesday\u201d on Jan. 20, airing a Mets-Brewers game from Aug. 10 in which Isaac Collins opened the bottom of the ninth with a game-winning homer off Edwin D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n
Jett Williams was watching that rerun with his father, Richard, in his parents\u2019 suburban Dallas home and, \u201cKind of joking, I said, that\u2019s going to be my new team [the Brewers].\u201d<\/p>\n
It was like an alert to the baseball heavens needed. It wasn\u2019t long after that reports of an imminent trade began infesting social media \u2014 Williams and Brandon Sproat from the Mets to the Brewers for Freddy Peralta. Soon his agent, Dan Lozano, called to alert him to take the reports seriously, just as Sproat was hearing at his offseason home in Pensacola, Fla., from his representative, Scott Boras.<\/p>\n
\u201cJonah Tong also called me and he said, \u2018Hey brother, tell me this isn\u2019t true,\u2019 \u201d Sproat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 MLB Network was in the midst of \u201cWalkoff Wednesday\u201d on Jan. 20, airing a Mets-Brewers game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,6303,136,843,59,4280,4,185,430,428,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-604799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brandon-sproat","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-milwaukee","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","13":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-spring-training"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116168448155564830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604799","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=604799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}