The Royals’ second-best relief pitcher is now the Omaha Storm Chasers’ best relief pitcher, but at the moment even that might be a stretch because nobody is sure how this will go with Matt Strahm.
The Royals are making that much obvious. You can hear that as Ned Yost, the manager who will never lose confidence in a player, explains why the Royals selected righty Jakob Junis along with lefty Scott Alexander to promote.
“We needed an arm,” Yost said. “And we needed a rostered arm.”
That description fits Strahm, too, but at some point between retiring just four of the 14 batters he faced in three games, he lost all functional confidence.