Wandy Peralta

With the World Series here, that means that free agency is almost here and the Padres have a lot of questions obviously at every single level of position but the bullpen is seemingly the one with uh i think the widest swing of both money-wise the some people saying that adrian morihone is going to make a bazillion and a half dollars and have generational wealth and now the people at sport track have come out and said that morihone's gonna make a reasonable amount of money, but not overly expensive because he wants to give the Padres a hometown discount.

I don't know, I gotta get after my boy Curtis, who truly despises Wandy Peralta and yet his value is more than I will make in the next 25 years doing this show.

And a couple of other guys that we got to round up who are going to be free agents and the good people over at sport track have published their estimated values, which you know, it's all made up until it did sign pen to paper, but I think gives us good talking points.

So as always, if you want to like, subscribe, comment, share, follow all those other buttons, like I said, free agent market values.

There's no doubt about that.

Wandy Peralta didn't really have a role during the postseason, so maybe there's some writing on the wall there.

But Yuki Matsui certainly did.

Joe Musgrove, we're not even sure what the role's going to be.

He has the choice to opt out of a $6.5 million contract for 2027.

Uh, Wandy Peralta, um, old reliable, he made $4.45 million this past year.

He has an opt out at that same price for 2027.

Um, I see both of them coming back, especially Peralta.

Yeah.

I, I tend to think that both would return.

I mean, Wandy Peralta's gonna be 36 next year.

Yeah.

Because we had one person do it in 2021.

We had one person do it in 2022, Wandy Peralta.

We had one person do it in 2024, which means nobody in '23, nobody in '25.

And this year we've had five guys throw 40 pitches that were relievers all year that, that maxed out below 40 pitches during the regular season and, and created a new max in the postseason.

Yuki Matsui Who had a terrific season and was fantastic in the postseason.

He can opt, he has an opt- a player option after this season, as does Wandy Peralta.

So right now, when you think of what the strength of what the Padres was, it was their bullpen, but you have a couple guys that probably won't be back.

I'd start with Jason Adam.

I know that's not r- that's not normal.

The, the Yankees did that to the Guardians a couple years back with Wandy Peralta in all five of a DS matchup, but that's a bit strange.

Gavin Williams I know was his throw day, and I know the Marlins got all the praise in the world for doing it with Sandy Alcantara and Yuri Perez, but that's a five run game.

That's an unfamiliar situation.

In fact, maybe they did, 'cause I just saw a tweet from the, uh, tweet from the Padres about an hour ago that said, "We have returned right-handed pitcher Mason Miller from the re- paternity list today.

He will take the place of left-handed pitcher Wandy Peralta on the active NLDS roster." So he is back for the game tonight.

Uh, so I don't...

I, I assume they had their child, hopefully.

He can't get that anymore.

I think he's a talented enough guy and a savvy veteran that could make it through some stuff, but he's closer, in my opinion, to Wandy Peralta's stuff, uh, than I think some people realize.

But he did get the out they needed.

Yuki Matsui comes in.