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Matt Strahm Was Scratched Because He Hurt His Fingernail Packing His Daughter’s Toys

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Mar 24th, 2025 · 4:15 PM EDT

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The Phillies are now injuring themselves packing. Someone put this team in bubble wrap until Opening Day:

Matt Strahm was supposed to pitch today, but he has left middle fingernail irritation after packing this morning. Not believed to be serious. He is still expected to make the Opening Day roster.

— Todd Zolecki (@ToddZolecki) March 24, 2025

We have an update on Matt Strahm’s middle-finger injury

He said he was packing his daughter’s toys in a box and jammed the cardboard between his nail and finger

It’s his 2nd packing injury of the spring

“I’m going to have to buy a house here so I don’t have to pack,” he said

— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) March 24, 2025

I don’t even understand how this happened. Cardboard? Toys in a box? I’m not a dad, but maybe someone can shed some light on this. (Kinkead: easy, you get to a point with your kids toys where you just start shoving shit into a box and you aren’t really paying attention. You just want them out of your sight.)

The craziest part this is Strahm’s second time injuring himself packing THIS SPRING. He must pack like a guy on a bachelor party who missed his alarm and has to catch his flight in an hour. We all know he’s a mad man on the mound talking to himself. Does he perform every task in his life like that?

Pack fast, eat ass – Matt Strahm:

 

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I couldn’t imagine having to tell my boss I got hurt packing. Imagine having to do it twice.

The call probably went like Michael Scott when he burned his foot on his George Foreman Grill: