The San Diego Padres hit the table in the Major League free agency market on Wednesday by agreement with the Dominican Wandy Peralta, who plays for the New York Yankees from the 2021 season.

Peralta, who He signed for four years and a total of $16.5 million dollars According to reports from the MLB.com portal, he is one of the key pieces of the New York Yankees, with numbers in the bullpen that make him stand out from the rest of the team.

However, despite the collective interest in money, which he negotiated with him since November according to the statements of Brian Cashman, general manager, the left hand preferred a change of scenery.

Indeed, The New York Mets also showed interest days ago in acquiring the reliever’s services.trying to show him the benefits of staying in a city like New York, but it’s not possible.

Peralta’s contract will also include three optional clauses that will allow him to opt out of the deal without problems and also to veto possible changes.

The contract establishes three optional clauses that allow Peralta to exit this agreement with the San Diego team, the official MLB.com portal reported this Wednesday.

In 2023, Peralta is the most used arm of Mules manager Aaron Boone, worked 63 games in the regular season where he finished with a 4-2 record, an earned run percentage of 2.83 in 54 innings of work and a total of 51 strikeouts.

In addition, to make a breakdown of the three campaigns involved in those from the Bronx, Peralta left an ERA of 2.82 in 165 games and 133 strikeouts.

The signing of Peralta is expected to help strengthen San Diego’s bullpen, especially against dangerous left-handed hitters in the division such as the Dodgers’ newly acquired Shohei Ohtani or Arizona Diamondbacks star Joc Peterson. especially after leaving their star closer Josh Harder and their reliable setup, Tim Hill.

The data that supports Peralta’s work is that Against left-handed batters, in 2023, he only allowed 11 hits in 80 at-bats, and of those 80 games, 24 ended in strikeouts..

In this way, Peralta becomes a new addition to the Padres for the upcoming 2024 Major League season. joining a staff of pitchers also a former Yankee like the Dominicans Randy Vásquez and the versatile Jhony Britowho can serve as a starter or reliever.

Likewise, right-handed pitcher Woo-Suk Go and Venezuelan Robert Suárez will compete with Japanese baseball’s star closer, Yuki Matsui, to get the job in the last inning and get the save.

In the case of Matsui, who also signed a multi-year contract with the team for five years, he was able to spend his entire career with the Eagles in Japan where At age 28, he added a total of 236 saves for lifeof which 39 have been achieved by 2023.

Yuki Matsui During The All-Star Match Between Japan And The United States.Credit: KAZUHiro NOGI | AFP/Getty Images

Additionally, during that time he left with an ERA of 2.40 in 659.2 innings of work.