The Mets have bolstered their rotation with one of many high starters within the sport. New York is ready to amass two-time All-Star Freddy Peralta in a four-player commerce with the Milwaukee Brewers, the groups introduced late Wednesday. Pitcher Tobias Myers can also be going to the Mets, whereas prospects Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams are headed again to Milwaukee.
Peralta, 29, is the most recent big-name Brewer to get traded away one 12 months previous to free company, becoming a member of Corbin Burnes and Devin Williams. Milwaukee picked up Peralta’s cut price $8 million membership possibility earlier this offseason, however as soon as Brandon Woodruff accepted the $22.025 million qualifying supply, the membership bumped into payroll points. The Peralta commerce clears cash and provides expertise.
This previous season was a profession 12 months for Peralta, who completed fifth within the Nationwide League Cy Younger voting. He made 30 begins for the third straight season and set new profession bests in wins (17), innings (176 ⅔), ERA (2.70), and WAR (5.5). That 5.5 WAR was fourth within the NL and eighth amongst all pitchers. Peralta is, unquestionably, one of many sport’s finest beginning pitchers.
With the Mets, he’ll headline a rotation that features some mixture of standout rookie Nolan McLean, Jonah Tong, Clay Holmes, Sean Manaea, David Peterson and Kodai Senga. President of baseball operations David Stearns, who labored with Peralta in Milwaukee, had been vocal about his want for a frontline starter for the 2026 season.
“Buying Freddy provides one other established starter to assist lead our rotation,” Stearns mentioned in an announcement. “All through the offseason, we sought to enhance our rotation with one other front-end pitcher, and we’re thrilled we’re in a position to convey Freddy to the Mets.”
This caps a busy offseason for the Mets, which additionally noticed them add Bo Bichette, Marcus Semien, Luis Robert Jr., Jorge Polanco, and others whereas bidding adieu to mainstays like Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil, Brandon Nimmo, and Edwin Díaz.
Even after buying and selling away their ace, the NL Central champion Brewers boast spectacular rotation depth. Their rotation depth chart presently seems like this:
- RHP Brandon Woodruff
- RHP Jacob Misiorowski
- RHP Quinn Priester
- RHP Chad Patrick
- RHP Logan Henderson
- LHP Robert Gasser
- LHP DL Corridor
With a typical Peralta season in 2026, the Mets will be capable to make him the qualifying supply subsequent offseason and obtain a compensation draft decide ought to he signal elsewhere. That will offset the commerce price a bit. And, after all, there may be at all times the potential of a long-term extension, which is preferable to a compensation draft decide.
Peralta is getting into the ultimate possibility 12 months of a five-year, $15.5 million contract extension he signed in February 2020. That contract included $8 million membership choices for each 2024 and 2025, making Peralta one of many sport’s high pitching bargains.
Myers, 27, made six begins and 16 aid appearances for the Brewers in 2025. Over components of two MLB seasons, he has an ERA+ of 132 and an FIP of three.92 in 188 ⅔ innings.
As for the Brewers’ facet of issues, the outfielder Williams was ranked by CBS Sports activities as the No. 14 prospect within the Nationwide League East. Here is a part of R.J. Anderson’s write-up:
“Williams will check your preconceived notions. He is a 5-foot-7 speedster who has expertise in any respect three up-the-middle positions. But his offensive sport is not constructed on a robust basis of bat-to-ball expertise. Fairly, he is all in regards to the slug. Williams lifts and pulls the ball at excessive frequencies, permitting him to get essentially the most from pedestrian energy markers. The draw back right here is that Williams swings and misses lots (he had a 73.5% contact price in Triple-A), that means he is more likely to strike out round 1 / 4 of the time within the majors. He ought to present sufficient of every little thing else — energy, walks, protection, and baserunning — to take pleasure in a big-league profession. It simply will not be the one you’d count on at first blush.”
The 25-year-old Sproat is a right-hander who made 4 begins for the Mets final season. Throughout components of two minor-league campaigns, the College of Florida product pitched to a 3.83 ERA and a 2.57 Ok/BB ratio in 48 begins and two aid appearances. Throughout his temporary stint within the majors in 2025, Sproat averaged 96 mph together with his fastball.
