{"id":2455133,"date":"2026-06-11T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2455133"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:30:11","slug":"why-phillies-have-already-won-their-matt-strahm-trade-with-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-phillies-have-already-won-their-matt-strahm-trade-with-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Phillies have already won their Matt Strahm trade with Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why Phillies have already won their Matt Strahm trade with Royals<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the offseason, the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> made a move that wasn’t typically characteristic of a World Series contender. They traded Matt Strahm<\/a>, a veteran reliever who had been one of the Phillies’ best recently, to the Kansas City Royals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It was a trade that some fans weren’t the biggest fans of, as Strahm had been pitching very well for the Phillies the last couple of seasons. But, in June, only a few months later, the Phillies are looking good for this trade.<\/p>\n

Strahm was named as a likely trade chip for the Royals by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic<\/a> for the 2026 MLB trade deadline. That alone has the Phillies as winners, but the one-for-one swap is also going the Phillies way right now.<\/p>\n

Phillies won the Matt Strahm trade with the Royals<\/h2>\n

“Left-hander Kris Bubic<\/a>, a potential free agent, would be more likely to go, along with others on expiring contracts – outfielder Lane Thomas<\/a>, lefty reliever Matt Strahm, and righty reliever John Schreiber<\/a>, among them,” Rosnethal writes.<\/p>\n

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Strahm is a trade deadline candidate for the Royals, which means that Kansas City might not even get a full season out of Strahm after trading for him over the offseason.<\/p>\n

The Phillies got Jonathan Bowlan<\/a> in return for Strahm, and he is under club control through the 2031 season, so the Phillies aren’t in any rush to part ways with the right-handed reliever.<\/p>\n

Strahm has 0.1 bWAR with a 4.43 ERA, 18 strikeouts, and a 94 ERA+ across 20.1 innings pitched for the Royals this season.<\/p>\n

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Bowlan has 0.1 bWAR with a 3.92 ERA, 21 strikeouts, and a 114 ERA+ across 20.2 innings pitched for the Phillies this season.<\/p>\n

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Their statistical profiles are very similar, but based on ERA+, Bowlan has been roughly 20-percent better than Strahm has this season, so the Phillies are winners already strictly looking at the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

But, with Strahm a free agent after 2026, the Royals are now looking to trade him by the August 3 deadline, while Bowlan looks to be a core part of the bullpen for a while.<\/p>\n

This was a one-for-one trade, and the Phillies have been clear winners of this trade, with Bowlan pitching better than Strahm this season, and the long-term outlook heavily favors the Phillies’ side of this trade.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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