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PHILADELPHIA — All-Star reliever Matt Strahm<\/a> passed a physical, causing the $7.5 million option for 2026 to vest in his contract with the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Strahm received a $7.5 million salary in 2025 and the option became guaranteed because he reached 60 innings this year and passed the physical. The Phillies made the announcement Tuesday night.<\/p>\n The 33-year-old left-hander had a 2.74 ERA this year with 70 strikeouts and 20 walks in 62 innings, holding batters to a .208 average.<\/p>\n He was an All-Star for the Phillies in 2024 after agreeing to the deal with Philadelphia that March.<\/p>\n Strahm has a 3.36 ERA in 10 seasons with Kansas City<\/a>, San Diego<\/a>(2018-21), Boston<\/a>(2022) and the Phillies (2023-25).<\/p>\n NL East champion Philadelphia will play the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> orCincinnati Reds<\/a>in a best-of-five Division Series starting Saturday.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, October 1, 2025 12:33AM PHILADELPHIA — All-Star reliever Matt Strahm passed a physical, causing the $7.5 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[116503,64,63,794,16071,591,44,2365,85],"class_list":["post-181436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-116503","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-espn","tag-matt-strahm","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}