The Mets have regrouped properly, huh? Their offseason received off to a disastrous begin, however they’ve stuffed in most of their holes with impression gamers, the newest being Freddy Peralta, who was acquired in a commerce Wednesday evening for a pair of top-100 prospects.
Let’s dive into the Fantasy implications of this deal for each side:
Mets purchase Freddy Peralta
Peralta slides proper into the highest of the Mets rotation with this transfer. He isn’t your prototypical, innings-eating ace, however he is usually superb when he is on the mound. There are extra ups and downs than you’d choose – there’s a number of Blake Snell, albeit much less excessive on each ends of the spectrum – however on the finish of the day, Peralta usually places in 160-175 innings of a mid-3.00s ERA and 200 or so strikeouts.
And he is transferring to one of many few spots round baseball which may not characterize an enormous downgrade from the one he was in in Milwaukee. The Mets most likely will not match the Brewers‘ 97 wins from a 12 months in the past, however this needs to be a really aggressive staff, with a superb residence park and an important protection backing him up. Bo Bichette is unproven at third base, but when he can deal with it, the Mets might have plus protection on the key infield positions, plus left subject and middle subject. It is a good touchdown spot, if you need to depart one nearly as good as Milwaukee.
Peralta, in fact, already prices fairly a bit in Fantasy drafts, together with his ADP as much as 69.1 in NFBC drafts within the month of January. I believe that is most likely an overpay based mostly on final 12 months’s inflated win whole and unsustainably low ERA (2.70 ERA in comparison with a 3.47 xERA), however that does not imply I believe Peralta is prone to be a nasty decide – 200 strikeouts and good, however not nice ratios by no means goes out of favor. And his new touchdown spot ought to assist him maintain his worth. So long as his worth would not preserve rising, he represents a strong, albeit imperfect selection for the No. 2 spot in your rotation.
Peralta’s worth holds regular, so the extra attention-grabbing facet of the deal comes from the prospects the Mets gave as much as get him.
Let’s meet Williams
For one 12 months of Peralta’s providers, the Brewers acquired a pair of top-100 prospects in shortstop Jett Williams and pitcher Brandon Sproat. Sproat has made his MLB debut whereas Williams received to Triple-A final season, in order that they not solely received two top-100 prospects, however they received two who might assist their staff in 2026.
Now, a fast be aware earlier than we transfer on: I’m, personally, not an enormous fan of both of the gamers the Brewers acquired right here. It is giving me shades of the Corbin Burnes commerce from a couple of years in the past, one the Brewers have not gotten a lot out of. I will be aware the place my skepticism with every lies, however I will additionally lean on others’ scouting stories to offer each side of the argument.
Let’s begin with Williams, the extra extremely regarded of the 2.
A technique Williams matches with the Brewers is his peak: He’s simply 5’7″, so he’ll match proper in with the likes of Caleb Durbin and Sal Frelick, two different diminutive current prospect graduates.
And, as you may count on, Williams would not hit the ball particularly arduous – in his temporary Triple-A debut in 2025, he had simply an 86 mph common exit velocity and 34% hard-hit fee, each of which have been solidly under common marks. Nonetheless, he manages to be functionally about common as an influence hitter due to a robust method on the plate and a excessive pulled-air fee, which helps him make the most of the shorter fences in left subject. The mix of strong contact expertise and a proclivity for elevating the ball to the pull facet ought to assist him keep away from being completely punchless, just like how Durbin has emerged as a double-digit homer sources regardless of his diminutive measurement and exit velocity readings.
The place my skepticism with Williams comes from is the plate self-discipline facet. He tends to be overly passive, which ends up in excessive stroll charges within the minors however might be exploited within the majors. It is one factor when you simply have preternaturally good swing selections, however that is not essentially the case for Williams – at Triple-A, he was within the 78th percentile in chase fee, however was additionally in simply the twenty seventh percentile for in-zone swings. He lets a number of strikes go previous him looking for the precise pitches he can drive, however major-league pitchers are way more keen and capable of problem hitters within the zone in the event that they assume they don’t seem to be going to harm them. It is simple to fall behind with that method.
That is not a loss of life knell for Williams, however there simply aren’t a ton of gamers with under common pop who could make this sort of method work. However there’s one notable comp if you wish to be optimistic: Geraldo Perdomo, who had below-average high quality of contact metrics and the eighth-lowest in-zone swing fee in baseball in 2025, however made it work by making a ton of contact when he did swing, drawing a number of walks when he did not, and elevating the ball to the pull facet and hitting a number of line drives.
Williams ranked sixty fourth on Scott White’s top-100 prospects listing printed earlier this week, and he had this to say:
“Williams bounced again properly from an injury-wrecked 2024, significantly when you simply have a look at his .281/.390/.477 slash line at Double-A and provides him a go for his bumpy transition to Triple-A. He nonetheless sells out tougher for energy than his 5-foot-7 body suggests he ought to, although. There is a scrappy leadoff hitter in right here — one who’s extra prone to wind up at second base than shortstop — however his present method presents actual batting common danger.”
The Brewers have some depth up the center, however shortstop is fairly clearly their greatest place of weak spot with Joey Ortiz coming off a .593 OPS in 2025. They could prioritize Ortiz’s regular glove hand within the brief time period, but when he hits like that once more, Williams can have a chance to play earlier than lengthy, even when it would not appear tremendous prone to come proper out of Spring Coaching — and Williams does have expertise at second base and within the outfield, and adaptability all the time makes a path to enjoying time simpler to seek out. And there’s some energy/pace upside right here if he hits (Williams hit 17 homers and stole 34 bases in 130 video games as a 21-year-old in 2025), too.
Let’s meet Sproat
Sproat’s worth as a prospect has been on fairly a trip lately, not not like Williams. The previous second-round decide garnered a number of hype for his 2024 breakout, however he sputtered throughout a late callup to Triple-A after which almost fell off prospect radars totally when adopted that up with a 5.43 ERA by way of the top of June to open 2025. However he switched up his method, prioritized a sinker over his four-seamer and have become a weak-contact inducing machine, posting a 2.72 ERA in July and August earlier than a September promotion to the majors.
Sproat held his personal towards big-leaguers, however a number of the points that cropped up early within the season got here again. He struggled a bit together with his command and did not miss many bats, together with his fastballs proving particularly hittable. He has a deep arsenal and throws comfortably within the higher 90s, however Sproat’s fastballs simply aren’t nice, particularly his four-seamer. He has struggled at occasions to take care of his velocity deep into video games, too, presenting some actual reduction danger as he has grown up as a prospect.
However he racks up a number of floor balls, has proven strikeout upside, and has had stretches of actually good management earlier than attending to Triple-A. It is not arduous to see a strong major-leaguer right here, however provided that Sproat has been an older prospect and is already 25, I am undecided there is a ton of upside right here, both. This is what Scott needed to say about Sproat whereas rating him as his No. 93 prospect:
“Sproat has fallen about 60 spots from final 12 months’s prime 100, his odd fastball form having been uncovered together with his transfer as much as Triple-A, however he started emphasizing his sinker because the 12 months went on and partially salvaged his stat line with a 2.44 ERA, 0.93 WHIP and 10.7 Ok/9 over his last 11 begins. He most likely will not be a lot of a bat-misser on the highest degree, which limits his ceiling, however he does excel at inducing weak grounders.”
There is a path for Sproat to make the Brewers rotation out of spring, however he is most likely on the skin wanting in for now. It is a good touchdown spot on a staff that tends to wring probably the most out of flawed younger pitchers, and I might see Sproat having an consequence like Quinn Priester‘s, who emerged as a helpful, albeit-kind-of-boring pitcher in 2025, with a 3.32 ERA however solely 7.6 Ok/9.
That ain’t nothing. Nevertheless it’s not one thing Fantasy gamers have to get enthusiastic about till we see some indicators of success towards major-league hitters. Sproat is fairly simple to go on in 12-team leagues, and even in 15-teamers he most likely should not be drafted till we all know he has a rotation spot.
