Six days. That\u2019s how long it took the Mets to turn a winter of discontent into something completely different; something much happier.<\/p>\n
Behind the scenes, the pursuits of Freddy Peralta, Bo Bichette and Luis Robert Jr. \u2014 the trio of hope that completely flipped what had been a disastrous winter \u2014 went on for many weeks (Bichette), many months (Robert) and almost a year (Peralta).<\/p>\n
The deal for Peralta and useful swingman Tobias Myers<\/a> capped a thrilling week that remade the Mets into legit contenders several weeks after their heartbreaking start. The cost was talented INF-OF prospect Jett Williams and big-armed righty Brandon Sproat<\/a>, two Top 100 prospects to give Milwaukee seven in that elite category.<\/p>\n When the 2025 Brewers started poorly, Mets baseball president David Stearns first checked on Peralta, who Stearns acquired for Milwaukee as one of three Class A \u201clottery tickets\u201d from Seattle for platoon 1B Adam Lind. (You\u2019ll recall their season-opening blowup in The Bronx.) Talks picked up right after the season as Milwaukee, MLB\u2019s smallest market and one of nine teams that recently suffered a TV hit, began seriously looking at trades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six days. That\u2019s how long it took the Mets to turn a winter of discontent into something completely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[382,21297,37403,363,130885,1189,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-424585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bo-bichette","9":"tag-freddy-peralta","10":"tag-luis-robert-jr","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-free-agency","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424585","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=424585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}