{"id":849512,"date":"2026-08-07T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849512\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:52:09","slug":"nationals-luis-perales-could-make-mlb-debut-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849512\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals&#8217; Luis Perales: Could make MLB debut soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/29077662\/perales\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perales<\/a> is a pitcher the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/WAS\/washington-nationals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nationals<\/a> believe is nearly ready to make his big-league debut, Spencer Nusbaum of The Athletic reports.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired from Boston in the offseason, Perales had a bumpy start to the season after completing his recovery from Tommy John surgery, but over his last eight starts for Triple-A Rochester he&#8217;s put together a 2.79 ERA, 1.29 WHIP and 41:25 K:BB in 38.2 innings. The 23-year-old right-hander is still working to improve his control and his stamina, but Perales has elite raw stuff headlined by a four-seamer that averaged 98.5 mph and a split-finger pitch that&#8217;s generated a 42.2 percent whiff rate in 2026. A late-season stint with the Nationals would put Perales on track to win a spot in the rotation next spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perales is a pitcher the Nationals believe is nearly ready to make his big-league debut, Spencer Nusbaum of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,11142,203048,462,82,3968],"class_list":["post-849512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-luis-perales","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}