The Milwaukee Brewers have had their share of smart deals over the last decade, and plenty of them have paid off in a big way. Trades for players like Corbin Burnes, Freddy Peralta, and Caleb Durbin have helped show how well the front office has usually handled that part of the job.
But not every move has aged nearly as well. Right now, the Tristan Peters trade looks like one of the ugliest swings former general manager David Stearns ever took.
The Brewers drafted outfielder Tristan Peters in the seventh round of the 2021 MLB amateur draft. Just a year later, they sent him to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for reliever Trevor Rosenthal.
That deal never gave Milwaukee anything back. Rosenthal was on a rehab assignment when the Brewers got him, then got hurt again after the trade and never pitched in a game for Milwaukee.
Peters, meanwhile, kept moving. He went from San Francisco to the Tampa Bay Rays and then to the Chicago White Sox. This season, as a rookie, he has put together a strong line of .303/.357/.484 with six home runs, 35 RBI, five stolen bases and 20 doubles.
On Saturday morning, Peters was added to the American League All-Star roster, giving the White Sox three All-Star representatives.
That announcement came one day after he made a little history. In Chicago’s 14-1 win over the Athletics, Peters hit for the cycle, and he became the first rookie ever to do it while batting ninth in the lineup.
Stearns is now the President of Baseball Operations for the New York Mets, and the way things are going there makes this old Brewers trade look even worse in hindsight. Milwaukee, at least, can be glad that chapter is over. Matt Arnold looks like the better baseball mind.
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