The Los Angeles Dodgers have expressed interest in trading for Brewers starting pitcher Freddy Peralta, according to reporters Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic.
Peralta, age 29, posted arguably his best season in 2025 with a 17-6 record and 2.70 ERA in 33 appearances and 176.2 innings pitched, along with 204 strikeouts and a 1.08 WHIP.
Peralta Getting Significant Trade Interest
Peralta led the Brewers’ starting staff as their ace and is garnering lots of trade interest. The Brewers could trade him this offseason, in which Adam McCalvy of MLB.com mentions the impact Peralta has had on the Brewers in their playoff runs leaves “uncertainty” as to whether they’ll deal him, but that their is significant interest from teams, and that the Brewers have a tendency to trade star players in recent memory during their walk years, such as starting pitcher Corbin Burnes to the Orioles in February of 2024, according to McCalvy.
Peralta will earn $8 million in 2026 before becoming a free agent at season’s end, according to Spotrac. For a team like the Dodgers, it makes sense to consider this, since they are already a goliath in the sport, having been the first back-to-back World Series champions since the New York Yankees from 1998 to 2000. The Dodgers are showing no signs of slowing down, looking for a three-peat, in which they’ve already made one offseason splash of significance by signing former Mets closer Edwin Diaz at the MLB Winter Meetings this past December to a three-year, $69 million contract.
Peralta Fits The Dodgers And A Lot Of Other Teams
Peralta would be a nice addition to an already stacked Dodgers starting rotation with the likes of World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell, and Tyler Glasnow. The addition of Peralta through trade would, without a doubt, make the Dodgers again have the strongest and deepest starting pitching staff in baseball, or at the very least on paper.
Peralta throws four pitches: a 4-seam fastball, a change-up, a curveball, and a slider. He has great metrics according to Baseball Savant in terms of ranking in the 83rd and 84th percentiles among starter pitchers in whiff and K percentage, as well as an above average fastball up in the zone that generates a lot of swing and miss, complimenting well with his primary offspeed pitches, such as his change up and curveball, which are his two most relied on secondary pitches after the fastball.
Several other teams have also expressed significant interest in Peralta, which include the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, and the Boston Red Sox, according to Sammon and Rosenthal, as well as prior reports. The Brewers have no issue finding a nice list of potential suitors, including the Dodgers, who were also ranked as having the best farm system in baseball during the 2025 season, according to MLB’s website. The amount of talent the Dodgers have between the big league roster and within the system pipeline makes them a more intriguing trade target for a team like the Brewers that is looking for the best return package possible in terms of readily available talent, either at the major league level or in terms of prospects, if not a mix of both.
Rosenthal and Sammon cite Peralta to the Dodgers as a “long shot,” but state that Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman is currently “hanging on the backboard” and interested in monitoring the market for “high-profile players.”
The Brewers could keep Peralta, considering he was a big reason they made the 2025 NLCS, but with his trade value never higher than it is now and Peralta in his walk year, it makes sense to listen to offers. Especially when it comes to a player, a smaller-market team such as Milwaukee is unlikely to retain him long term after he reaches free agency following the 2026 season.
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