Mets New Ace Is Ready For Big-Market Jump To New York

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• The pitcher is currently represented by ACES, and Peralta also nailed his second answer when he was asked if extension talks have happened this spring: “No comment.”But Peralta knows Citi Field, and not just from his road trips with the Brewers.
• Back when he was an 11-year old Little Leaguer, a team he was on from the Dominican Republic spent a summer month in New York, and Citi Field was the park he visited, according to Rosenthal.
• The writer added that Peralta even threw a no-hitter against a team in the Bronx. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementFast forward to Opening Day of last year, and Peralta ended up reserving 40 tickets for friends and family to watch his start for the Brewers against the New York Yankees.
• His ballpark entourage was scattered across multiple boroughs, and there were quite a few of them “everywhere.”“When I say a lot,” Peralta added, “it’s a lot.”That means he knows what he’s getting into to a large extent, but Peralta doubtless knows it’s different when you’re pitching for the home-town team. Stearns, meanwhile, has traded for Peralta twice now, according to Rosenthal, first with the Brewers at the 2015 winter meetings when he acquired him from the Seattle Mariners, and now with the Mets.
• Both Stearns and Peralta know that the pitcher will be seriously underpaid this season at $8 million, but that doesn’t seem to bother Peralta, who says he knew “inside of me” that he wouldn’t be in Milwaukee for the long haul. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“I kind of knew that they wanted to keep me, but probably couldn’t afford my value in the future,” Peralta said.