Kansas City is bolstering its bullpen.<\/p>\n
Strahm made his MLB debut with the Royals in 2016 and now returns to his initial club. He has also played for the Padres, Red Sox and Phillies.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old Strahm was solid in 2025, posting a 2.74 ERA over 62.1 innings as one of Philadelphia’s high-leverage bullpen arms. He recorded a career-high six saves.<\/p>\n
Strahm had a career year in 2024, going 6-2 with a 1.87 ERA and making his first and only career all-star game.<\/p>\n
Going back to Philadelphia is the 29-year-old Bowlan, who made 34 appearances last season, going 1-2 with a 3.86 ERA. Bowlan was drafted by the Royals in 2018, making his MLB debut in 2023, and pitching only 50 innings over three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City is bolstering its bullpen. Strahm made his MLB debut with the Royals in 2016 and now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-355746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}