Perales has 163 CAREER innings. He has 9 innings above A+ ball. He has no track record. He is running out of time. If they put him in the rotation, what are the realistic expectations for him? He's going to build up to 3/4 innings by June? Any setbacks and the year is thrown into complete chaos. He needs to be fast tracked to BOS because he probably needs to be on the BOS active roster next season unless given an extra option year. The only way to do that is as a reliever. AAA vs MLB aren't comparable. You can see where his stuff is at, but the competition is not the same. You won't see how his stuff will play at the next level (compare Tolle's AAA and MLB numbers in '25).