The Brewers’ 2022 deadline haul keeps looking worse, and the latest twist came on July 11, 2026: Tristan Peters was named to the AL All-Star team.
Peters replaces the injured Nick Kurtz on the roster, giving the White Sox another representative and putting a fresh spotlight on one of Milwaukee’s most painful deadline misfires. The Brewers dealt Peters to the San Francisco Giants for Trevor Rosenthal, and Rosenthal never threw a pitch for Milwaukee after suffering a lat strain during a minor league rehab assignment while recovering from a hamstring injury he had before the trade.
That deal was only part of the Brewers’ messy deadline. In the same stretch, they sent Josh Hader to the Padres for Taylor Rogers, Dinelson Lamet, Esteury Ruiz and Robert Gasser, then also moved Antoine Kelly and Mark Mathias for Matt Bush and Peters in the Rosenthal swap.
Of the players Milwaukee brought in, only Rogers and Bush logged meaningful innings in 2022, and neither was especially effective. Ruiz appeared in just three games before being flipped that offseason in the package that brought back William Contreras, the biggest payoff from the whole sequence.
Lamet was designated for assignment soon after the trade, while Gasser didn’t reach the majors until 2024.
Peters’ path to the All-Star Game has been a winding one. After a standout college career at Southern Illinois University, he played for the Savannah Bananas in 2021, back when they were still a collegiate summer ball team rather than the entertainment brand they became later.
The Brewers took him in the seventh round of the 2021 MLB Draft. From there, the moves came fast: Milwaukee sent him to San Francisco at the 2022 deadline, the Giants moved him to the Tampa Bay Rays three months later, and this past offseason he landed with the White Sox in a minor trade.
Chicago gave Peters an Opening Day roster spot, and he has been a key part of the team’s 2026 turnaround. Through 91 games, he is hitting .301/.354/.480 with six home runs, 20 doubles, 35 RBI and five stolen bases. He also hit for the cycle the day before his All-Star nod, collecting both his home run and triple in the same inning and becoming just the fifth player in MLB history to hit for the cycle as the ninth hitter in the batting order.
For Milwaukee, Peters’ rise is a brutal reminder of how little the Brewers got back in that move. For Chicago, it’s the reward for betting on a player several teams had already passed along.
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