LAS VEGAS – During a break at the GM Meetings on Tuesday, Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold sounded much more like a baseball man ready to make a deal.

“We try to evaluate ourselves as hard as anybody,” Arnold said. “Like, we want to make sure we're turning over every rock we possibly can to do better, and sometimes that requires making really tough decisions. We've had to do that in the past, and we're prepared to do the same thing this year.”

Arnold’s most valuable chip is right-hander Freddy Peralta , the 29-year-old coming off a season in which he led the National League with 17 victories while making 33 starts, posting a 2.70 ERA and striking out 200 or more for the third straight season.

A couple of weeks ago in the immediate wake of the Brewers’ season-end

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