I think the buyout makes it nearly certain he won’t be back. That’s a surplus of 1/10 for him on the option and he can do far better than that on the open market.
He proved he could pitch effectively after the shoulder surgery, that was the big thing for him. The lat strain is unfortunate but unrelated, and this is the first time really in his career that he’ll have an opportunity to enter free agency fully healthy. I think he deserves to take advantage of that and get 3/75 from somebody and I think he will.
I am ok with either way, keeping him or trading him. I think people will be underwhelmed with a Peralta return.
The comp is probably the Burnes trade, which was Ortiz, DL Hall, and Blake Burke. Has had some moments where it looked good but it looks like a whole lot of meh right now.
I don’t think Cruz is overall a big upgrade from Perkins and he’s not much younger.
If we are going to look for a CF I hope we take a bigger swing than that.
Miz for sure, Patrick for sure, Priester for sure. Freddy probably gets traded and I don’t think Woodruff will be back. Probably one vet signing like Quintana.
Then Henderson, Hall, Myers, and Gasser are all candidates for a spot,
The Dodgers averaged 3.75 runs per game in the NLCS.
We averaged 1 run per game.
Neither Freddy Peralta nor the 17 guys out of the bullpen is very high up on the list of reasons why we lost this series.
Crazy thing is, after Games 1 and 2 of the NLDS I thought “wow, it’s happening, the offense is waking up at the best possible time!”
And then that Game 2 was literally the last sighting. Seems like forever ago now.