I just don't see the Baz trade as a giant return, and instead the cost pretty much in line with his expected value versus salary.
The big issue with trading Peraltla for the Brewers is that he can easily be projected to give you 32 starts. Every other starter has serious question marks. Woodruff has made 30 starts once 5 years ago and has missed time since. Priester had a large increase in workload last year compared to 2024. It is inline with what he did in 2023, but that was mostly AAA innings. Henderson is coming off injury and only 100 innings of work, Gasser hardly pitched last year. Misiorowski is probably fine but coming off a large workload increase. Patrick also had a sizeable workload increase. Not saying something bad is going to happen, just that the Brewers don't have a guy that provides the stability that Peralta has provided over the last 3 years. (Now watch him run into some salad tongs).