{"id":358593,"date":"2025-12-19T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358593\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:14:15","slug":"mlb-rumors-phillies-trade-reliever-to-royals-padres-land-kbo-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358593\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB rumors: Phillies trade reliever to Royals, Padres land KBO star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2025-26 Major League Baseball offseason is ongoing, and with the Winter Meetings<\/a> drifting farther behind us we’re working our way deeper into the sport’s offseason calendar<\/a>. Among other things, the winter in baseball means a steady supply of rumors regarding free agent signings, trades, and the like. Speaking of which, you can find Friday’s roundup just below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Padres<\/a> land KBO star Sung-Mun Song<\/p>\n

The Padres have agreed to terms with infielder Sung-Mun Song out of Korea, Robert Murray of Fansided<\/a> reports. The deal will pay Song roughly $13 million over three years, according to Francys Romero<\/a>. Song, age 29, was posted for MLB teams<\/a> in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Across parts of nine seasons in KBO, Korea’s top professional circuit, Song batted .283\/.347\/.431. Over the last two seasons, however, Song reached new heights at the plate, and in 2025 for the Kiwoom Heroes he batted .315\/.387\/.530 with 26 home runs and 25 stolen bases in 144 games. He’s been a primary third baseman for his pro career, but he also has time spent at second base and first base.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Royals have acquired veteran lefty reliever Matt Strahm<\/a> from the Phillies in exchange for right-hander Jonathan Bowlan<\/a>. The Royals announced the deal on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Strahm is 34 and under contract for 2026 on a $4.5 million club option. For his career, he’s pitched to a 126 ERA+ and an FIP of 3.56 in 395 appearances spread over 10 MLB<\/a> seasons. He’s reached new heights over the last two years, as Strahm in 2024 and 2025 combined had a 2.30 ERA with 149 strikeouts in 125 innings. He earned an All-Star appearance in 2024.<\/p>\n

As for Bowlan, the 29-year-old right-hander has an ERA+ of 97 and an FIP of 4.86 across 37 MLB games. The vast majority of those appearances came in 2025, when he had an ERA of 3.86 and a K\/BB ratio of 2.71 in 44 \u2153 innings for the Royals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The 2025-26 Major League Baseball offseason is ongoing, and with the Winter Meetings drifting farther behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,195949,5261,16071,195986,591,48937,17145,15431,2365,195985,195987,1189,85],"class_list":["post-358593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jonathan-bowlan","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-matt-strahm","tag-matt-strahm-trade","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-free-agency","tag-mlb-rumors","tag-mlb-trade-rumors","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies-trade","tag-royals-trade","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358593","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=358593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}