Six days. That’s how long it took the Mets to turn a winter of discontent into something completely different; something much happier.
Behind the scenes, the pursuits of Freddy Peralta, Bo Bichette and Luis Robert Jr. — the trio of hope that completely flipped what had been a disastrous winter — went on for many weeks (Bichette), many months (Robert) and almost a year (Peralta).
The deal for Peralta and useful swingman Tobias Myers 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, two Top 100 prospects to give Milwaukee seven in that elite category.
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 “lottery tickets” from Seattle for platoon 1B Adam Lind. (You’ll recall their season-opening blowup in The Bronx.) Talks picked up right after the season as Milwaukee, MLB’s smallest market and one of nine teams that recently suffered a TV hit, began seriously looking at trades.
