Sean Fennessey

It's why they signed Justin Verlander.

It's why they signed Max Scherzer.

Ever since Jacob deGrom left, they've been looking for Jacob deGrom.

just before we started recording, there was a report that Jonah Tong's name came up in talks with the Brewers about Freddy Peralta.

The Mets said no.

The Brewers have since reportedly submitted an offer Brandon Sprote and Jet Williams for Peralta.

Peralta is not

Max Freed.

You know, he's not Tarek Skubal, but he's really in that next layer down.

He's on a one-year deal with the Brewers for $8 million, and then he's a free agent.

Obviously, David Stearns knows a little bit about Freddy Peralta because he was there when they developed him as a pitcher for Milwaukee.

If you put Freddy Peralta in this rotation...

And you trade Brandon Sprote and you trade Jet Williams.

Jet Williams, who's a top 50 prospect in baseball.

Yeah, even Peralta is not like a length guy.

You know, he very rarely pitched more than six innings per start.

You can go back and look at his games per.

I don't think he ever pitched seven innings in a single game last season, but he had a great season.

So the sport is changing in that way specifically.

McLean looks like the kind of guy who's going to be able to give you eight innings in the start, which is really exciting.