{"id":108107,"date":"2026-01-22T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108107\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:09:09","slug":"mets-acquire-freddy-peralta-in-blockbuster-trade-with-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108107\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets acquire Freddy Peralta in blockbuster trade with Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets\u2019 busy Wednesday came with a late-night twist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York acquired right-handed starter Freddy Peralta from the Brewers and 27-year-old reliever Tobias Myers, The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Outfield\/infield prospect Jett Williams and pitcher Brandon Sproat are heading to Milwaukee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deal bolsters the Amazin\u2019s pitching staff by adding Peralta, a two-time All-Star, who had a 2.70 ERA and 204 strikeouts in 176 \u2154 innings of work in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.54216867;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38250162\" width=\"910\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/070225Mets022CW.jpg\" alt=\"Freddy Peralta #51 of the Milwaukee Brewers throws a pitch during the first inning.\" class=\"wp-image-38250162\"  \/>Freddy Peralta of the Milwaukee Brewers throws a pitch during the first inning.  Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Last season was his best season to date, racking up a career-best 17 wins for the Brewers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Myers, a right-hander, had a 3.55 ERA and 38 strikeouts over 50 \u2154 innings last season in Milwaukee and brings some experience as a starter as well to the Big Apple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the trade comes on the same day as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sports\/six-mets-ranked-in-baseball-americas-top-100-prospects-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baseball America included Sproat and Williams<\/a> on their list of top-100 prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the Mets officially introduced infielder Bo Bichette and signed reliever Luis Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets\u2019 busy Wednesday came with a late-night twist.\u00a0 New York acquired right-handed starter Freddy Peralta from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17704,20,21528,9,11,320,10,319],"class_list":["post-108107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-hot-stove","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}