Freddy Peralta trade, wage floors, and the politics of MLB

The Milwaukee Brewers’ billionaire owner traded All-Star Freddy Peralta yesterday for prospects, leaving fans upset at the trade and the financing of Major League Baseball that created and normalized such a lopsided and unfair trade. We welcome Simon Rosenblum-Larson, a former minor league baseball player who helped organize a union for minor league players, to provide his perspective on the trade and take a deep dive into the financing and politics of MLB that enriches billionaires while extracting money from taxpayers. We close the show with Lisa Lucas the co-host of the Brewers Babes Podcast to get her take on the trade and MLB’s broken system.

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Freddy Peralta trade, wage floors, and the politics of MLB is an episode from Battleground Wisconsin by Brian Wooldridge.

This episode is 00:50:00 long.

This episode was published on Jan 22, 2026.

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