When national writers start tossing Freddy Peralta into trade proposals, Milwaukee Brewers fans usually shrug it off as background noise. They just exercised his absurdly team-friendly option after watching him pitch like a legitimate front-line arm during the 2025 campaign. This isn’t a guy you move lightly. But every now and then, one of these ideas at least makes you stop and think.
Anthony Castrovince’s latest bold-offseason prediction over at MLB.com did exactly that. Instead of shipping Peralta off to some random big spender, he sent him to a team the Brewers know intimately well: the Baltimore Orioles.