The MLB off-season tends to follow a similar blueprint each winter. Once the World Series ends and free agency opens, teams retreat from the grind of an eight-month season to recover, reset and map out ways to improve for the following spring.<\/p>\n
That usually leads to a quiet November, where a few moves will be made. But things generally heat up as most of the baseball world descends on the Winter Meetings in December.<\/p>\n
Things have unfolded similarly this year, but it’s been the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> and New York Mets making some early splashes by completing the signings of Dylan Cease, Cody Ponce and Devin Williams, along with the Marcus Semien-Brandon Nimmo trade ahead of next week’s Meetings from Dec. 7-10 in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n With names like Kyle Tucker, Bo Bichette and Kyle Schwarber<\/a> still on the open market, and several players rumoured to be available via trade, the 2025 Winter Meetings are positioned to bring a wave of activity. <\/p>\n MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand wrote Wednesday<\/a> that he expects Orlando to be “pretty active,” suggesting that he “could see the starting pitching market begin to move with pitchers like Michael King and Ranger Su\u00e1rez.”<\/p>\n With that in mind, here is an update on some of the latest rumours and speculation from baseball’s hot stove.<\/p>\n Brewers considering ‘cracking the door’ for Peralta deal<\/p>\n Coming off a regular season in which they posted the best record in baseball and reached the NLCS, the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> may be open to moving Freddy Peralta<\/a>.<\/p>\n Peralta is coming off a career-best season in which he racked up 204 strikeouts over 176.2 innings with a 2.70 ERA. For his efforts, the 29-year-old earned his second career all-star nod and finished fifth in NL Cy Young voting.<\/p>\n With Peralta owed just $8 million in 2026 \u2014 his final season of team control \u2014 Rosenthal notes there has been “significant” interest in prying the right-hander away from Milwaukee.<\/p>\n While it would take a “high bar” to land Peralta, the Brewers have been proactive in trading away players before they can leave in free agency. In the past four seasons, we have seen Milwaukee deal all-star pitchers Corbin Burnes, Josh Hader and Devin Williams, so the precedent has been set for the reigning NL Central champs to move on from a pitcher of Peralta’s calibre.<\/p>\n Could the Reds land Schwarber?<\/p>\n In need of some offensive punch, the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> are targeting one of baseball’s most consistent longball threats in Kyle Schwarber.<\/p>\n While it might not be the most logical fit from a financial perspective, Schwarber is from nearby Middletown, Ohio, and grew up attending games at Cincinnati’s Great American Ball Park. He would also provide an immediate injection of power for a Reds team that snuck into the 2025 post-season with just three regulars who posted an OPS north of .750.<\/p>\n Schwarber is coming off an NL MVP runner-up campaign that saw him lead the league with 56 homers and 132 RBIs, and over his four seasons in Philadelphia, only Aaron Judge hit more than his 187 big flies.<\/p>\n The issue for Cincinnati will be out-bidding the Phillies, Mets, Red Sox, Giants and Orioles,\u00a0all of whom are<\/a> reportedly in the mix<\/a> and have traditionally carried larger payrolls than the Reds.<\/p>\n Do the Twins blow it all the way up?<\/p>\n