{"id":645696,"date":"2026-03-27T02:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645696\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:08:17","slug":"mets-freddy-peralta-arent-close-in-extension-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645696\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets, Freddy Peralta aren&#8217;t close in extension talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word is the Mets and Freddy Peralta are far enough apart on an extension that there isn\u2019t much optimism anything will be done soon, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/25\/sports\/freddy-peraltas-mets-opening-day-start-comes-without-extension\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">and perhaps even before free agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets are open to talking in-season, but it\u2019s unclear if Peralta is. Peralta told The Post he seeks \u201cseven or eight\u201d years, and the Mets are disinclined to give players, and particularly pitchers, extensions of more than four or five years.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets did give Francisco Lindor a 10-year extension but that was well before David Stearns took over. <\/p>\n<p>Tommy Pham, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/26\/sports\/mets-signing-tommy-pham-hours-before-opening-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who signed a minor-league deal<\/a> ($2.25M in the majors) to return to the Mets, has maintained a good rapport with owner Steve Cohen. But this was said to be the call of baseball ops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Word is the Mets and Freddy Peralta are far enough apart on an extension that there isn\u2019t much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,753,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,430,428,8],"class_list":["post-645696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-freddy-peralta","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-tommy-pham"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116298702912698047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645696","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=645696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}