{"id":358750,"date":"2025-12-19T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358750\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:00:09","slug":"phillies-bolster-bullpen-with-lefty-specialist-kyle-backhus-in-trade-with-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/358750\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies bolster bullpen with lefty specialist Kyle Backhus in trade with Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/philadelphia-phillies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillies<\/a> acquired left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kyle-backhus-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Backhus<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> for minor league outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/avery-owusu-asiedu-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avery Owusu-Asiedu<\/a>, the second trade made by Philadelphia involving its pitching staff on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Earlier in the day, the Phillies sent left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/matthew-strahm-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Strahm<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royals<\/a> for right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/jonathan-bowlan-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Bowlan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The 27-year-old Backhus made 32 relief appearances for Arizona last season, going 0-3 with a 4.62 ERA. But he was particularly good against left-handed hitters, holding them to a .139 average, and that is the role that he is expected to fill in the Philadelphia bullpen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The 22-year-old Owusu-Asiedu has played in 218 games across three minor league levels in the Phillies system over the past three years, hitting .226 in 997 plate appearances. He was a ninth-round pick by Philadelphia in the 2023 first-year player draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 The Phillies acquired left-hander Kyle Backhus from the Arizona Diamondbacks for minor league outfielder Avery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-358750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358750","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=358750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}