{"id":358226,"date":"2025-12-19T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358226\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:05:09","slug":"royals-to-acquire-matt-strahm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358226\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals To Acquire Matt Strahm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royals are acquiring left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/strahma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Strahm<\/a> in a trade with the Phillies, according to a report from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/2002027241069261259?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Murray of FanSided<\/a>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Feinsand\/status\/2002028278320599430?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Feinsand of MLB.com<\/a> reports that right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bowlajo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Bowlan<\/a> is headed to Philadelphia in return for Strahm\u2019s services.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a reunion for Strahm and the Royals, as Kansas City drafted the lefty in the 21st round of the 2012 draft. Strahm made his big league debut for the Royals in 2016 and spent parts of two seasons with the club before being shipped to the Padres in a six-trade alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/woodtr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Travis Wood<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ruizes01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Esteury Ruiz<\/a> in order to acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cahiltr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trevor Cahill<\/a>, Brandon Mauer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/buchtry01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryan Buchter<\/a>. Strahm had a career 3.81 ERA and 4.12 FIP in 56 2\/3 innings at the time of the trade. He\u2019ll now return to Kansas City nearly a decade later with more than 500 MLB innings and an All-Star appearance under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals are acquiring left-hander Matt Strahm in a trade with the Phillies, according to a report from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[25921,28643,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-358226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-jonathan-bowlan","9":"tag-matt-strahm","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}