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Matt Strahm

Kansas City Royals American League Central

Age: 35
B/T: R/L
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #25

Born: November 12, 1991 in West Fargo, ND, United States
MLB debut: July 31, 2016
Drafted: 2012, round 21
College: Neosho CC
High school: West Fargo
Salary, 2026: $4.5M

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dbWAR: 7.1
IP: 35.2
ERA: 7.32
FIP: 7.14
K/9: 7.6
FIP−: 171

Matt Strahm is a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2026 he struck out 30 batters over 35.2 innings across 41 appearances, going 3-4. His ERA of 7.32 was 75.0% higher than the league average of 4.18 — the worst on his team, and 532nd of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.14 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 23.2% of swings (11.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.6%. His -1.0 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2026 regular season.

FIP7.14

K/97.6

WHIP1.49

WAR-1.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	KC	41	0	35.2	3	4	0	39	29	30	14	7.32	7.14	1.49	7.6	3.5	175	171	-1.0
2025	PHI	66	0	62.1	2	3	6	47	19	70	20	2.74	2.99	1.07	10.1	2.9	66	72	1.3
2024	PHI	66	0	62.2	6	2	3	36	13	79	11	1.87	2.29	0.75	11.3	1.6	46	56	1.7
2023	PHI	56	10	87.2	9	5	2	68	32	108	21	3.29	3.24	1.02	11.1	2.2	76	75	1.7
2022	BOS	50	0	44.2	4	4	4	38	19	52	17	3.83	3.72	1.23	10.5	3.4	96	94	0.4
2021	SD	6	1	6.2	0	1	0	15	6	4	1	8.10	2.42	2.40	5.4	1.3	190	57	0.2
2020	SD	19	0	20.2	0	1	0	14	6	15	4	2.61	4.93	0.87	6.5	1.7	59	111	0.0
2019	SD	46	16	114.2	6	11	0	121	60	118	22	4.71	4.41	1.25	9.3	1.7	105	98	1.0
2018	SD	41	5	61.1	3	4	0	39	14	69	21	2.05	3.36	0.98	10.1	3.1	50	81	1.0
2017	KC	24	3	34.2	2	5	0	30	21	37	22	5.45	5.44	1.50	9.6	5.7	125	125	-0.2
2016	KC	21	0	22.0	2	2	0	13	3	30	11	1.23	2.06	1.09	12.3	4.5	29	49	0.7

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2019	SD	16	27	6	0	1	0	2	12	.286	.348	.381	.095	.667	7.4%	44.4%	.319	-0.1	102	0.4
2018	SD	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-2.1	-119	-0.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Matt Strahm's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2025 Post	PHI	NLDS	3	2.1	0	2	1	1	0	2	3.86	0.86	7.7
2024 Post	PHI	NLDS	3	2.0	0	4	4	1	0	1	18.00	2.00	4.5
2023 Post	PHI	Postseason total	7	5.1	1	3	0	0	2	5	0.00	0.94	8.4
		NLDS	3	2.1	1	2	0	0	1	1	0.00	1.29	3.9
		NLCS	4	3.0	0	1	0	0	1	4	0.00	0.67	12.0
2020 Post	SD	Postseason total	4	2.1	0	7	3	0	2	2	11.57	3.86	7.7
		Wild Card	2	1.1	0	2	1	0	1	2	6.75	2.25	13.5
		NLDS	2	1.0	0	5	2	0	1	0	18.00	6.00	0.0
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	17	12.0	1	16	8	2	4	10	6.00	1.67	7.5

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	54	52	14	2	2	12	.269	.296	.462	.327	22.2%
vs RHB	107	93	25	10	12	18	.269	.364	.634	.420	16.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Matt Strahm throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	38.9%	246	91.3	2,544	52.4%	26.2%	58	.207	.758
Slider	28.0%	177	81.2	2,684	49.2%	27.8%	37	.351	1.334
Sinker	14.5%	92	91.4	2,439	50.0%	9.1%	19	.368	.926
Changeup	11.4%	72	82.3	1,671	34.7%	17.1%	21	.190	.530
Cutter	7.3%	46	87.4	2,593	39.1%	28.6%	10	—	—

Matt Strahm's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.