{"id":300481,"date":"2025-11-19T04:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:37:08","slug":"brewers-dont-see-brandon-woodruffs-return-as-prelude-to-potential-freddy-peralta-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300481\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers don\u2019t see Brandon Woodruff\u2019s return as prelude to potential Freddy Peralta trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Milwaukee Brewers do not see Brandon Woodruff accepting their one-year qualifying offer<\/a> worth $22.025 million as a prelude to trading their other top starter Freddy Peralta, according to owner Mark Attanasio and president of baseball operations Matt Arnold.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndependent decisions Matt and his group will make,\u201d Attanasio said in a message to The Athletic on Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019re certainly excited about our rotation now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arnold expressed nearly identical sentiments, adding: \u201cIndependent decisions, and excited about our rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments from the Brewers\u2019 top-ranking officials, however, do not completely rule out a trade.<\/p>\n

The Brewers\u2019 2025 payroll was approximately $123 million, according to FanGraphs<\/a>. Together, Woodruff and Peralta are set to make around $30 million. But Milwaukee can reduce the impact of Woodruff\u2019s acceptance of the qualifying offer by negotiating a multi-year deal with a lower annual average value.<\/p>\n

Though the context has changed, the stance reiterates the view Arnold expressed last week at the GM Meetings when he said he anticipated Peralta \u201cbeing part of our team moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peralta, 29, is entering his walk year and is set to earn $8 million in 2026, a relatively modest salary for a pitcher widely viewed as a top-of-the-rotation option. Peralta had a 2.70 ERA\/1.07 WHIP with 204 strikeouts in 176 2\/3 innings last season. His salary makes Peralta highly attractive to potential suitors, but also quite affordable for the Brewers.<\/p>\n

If the Brewers traded Peralta, Attanasio would risk receiving serious grief from fans fresh off a trip to the National League Championship Series. Attanasio is also a central figure in negotiations for the CBA. With a potential lockout looming, trading away a top starter at a relative affordable price would invite scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Faced with a similar situation two years ago, the Milwaukee Brewers traded Corbin Burnes to the Baltimore Orioles for shortstop Joey Ortiz, left-hander D.L. Hall and the 34th pick in the 2024 draft.<\/p>\n

The difference with Peralta is that Burnes was due nearly twice that amount. Milwaukee could take the same route with Peralta that it did with shortstop Willy Adames, another player who was essential to the team\u2019s fabric. The Brewers kept Adames until he was a free agent, then received the 32nd pick in the draft after he signed with the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Brewers do not see Brandon Woodruff accepting their one-year qualifying offer worth $22.025 million as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2325,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-300481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}