ST. LOUIS -- With his price tag about to go up via arbitration, Brewers right-hander Wily Peralta suggested he would work harder this winter to avoid the physical ailments that tarnished his 2015 season.
The Brewers this week announced they were shutting Peralta down for the season because of a recurrence of discomfort in his right oblique. He spent two months on the disabled list with a muscle strain in that area and was limited to 20 starts, going 5-10 with a 4.72 ERA in his final pre-arbitration season. It was a significant production drop from 2014, when Peralta was 17-11 with a 3.