{"id":181405,"date":"2026-03-31T22:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181405\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:06:44","slug":"where-mets-could-turn-if-freddy-peraltas-future-isnt-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181405\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Mets could turn if Freddy Peralta&#8217;s future isn&#8217;t in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Mets can\u2019t work it out with new ace Freddy Peralta, a nice consolation prize might be superstar Tarik Skubal, who like Peralta is an impending free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Peralta and the Mets are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/26\/sports\/mets-freddy-peralta-arent-close-in-extension-talks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">substantially apart on terms<\/a>, with Peralta telling The Post he seeks \u201cseven or eight\u201d years.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets gave up a lot for Peralta, so it\u2019d be nice to keep him. But they\u2019re far enough apart that they may not talk again until free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Skubal, expected to set a pitching contract record, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/06\/sports\/tarik-skubal-says-tigers-never-made-him-offer-in-offseason\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doesn\u2019t seem very likely to remain a Tiger<\/a> considering they offered $75 million over four years after 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Mets can\u2019t work it out with new ace Freddy Peralta, a nice consolation prize might be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[20046,34723,9,24,320,63,122,124,123,319,431,428,19922],"class_list":{"0":"post-181405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-bo-bichette","9":"tag-freddy-peralta","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-columnists","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-tarik-skubal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181405","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=181405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}