{"id":517639,"date":"2026-01-13T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517639\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:02:14","slug":"royals-matt-strahm-shades-phillies-after-trade-to-kansas-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/517639\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Matt Strahm Shades Phillies After Trade To Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Strahm is happy to be back in a Kansas City Royals uniform, but he&#8217;s also attempting to set the record straight about the end of his time with the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>After Strahm was traded to Kansas City for righty Jonathan Bowlan on Dec. 19, word came out that the end of his time in Philadelphia had included &#8220;growing friction&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6903636\/2025\/12\/19\/phillies-royals-strahm-bowlan-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Matt Gelb<\/a> of The Athletic). Even after an All-Star appearance in 2024 and another strong year in 2025, the Phillies essentially salary-dumped the 34-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Foul Territory last week, Strahm wanted something to be very clear: He doesn&#8217;t consider himself to be a difficult teammate to have in any capacity. <\/p>\n<p>If you like our content,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">choose Sports Illustrated as a preferred source on Google<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Strahm talks trade out of Philadelphia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Strahm is happy to be back in a Kansas City Royals uniform, but he&#8217;s also attempting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-517639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115885333115882103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}