MLB · P · Houston Astros
Josh Hader
B/T L/L · 6' 3" · 188 lb · born Millersville, MD, USA · age 32 · draft 2012 rd 19 · played P 54 · MLB debut 2017-06-10
167 batters faced scored this season His season card →
On the record · career milestone this season
250 career saves — Fri, Sep 4 · night game vs. Arizona Diamondbacks The scorecard → · The write-up →
The card rack
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FlagshipJosh Hader #HMT54 · 2017 Topps Chrome Update · 26 recent sales 7N ▲3.1%
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The rookieJosh Hader #RA-JHA · 2017 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs · 47 recent sales 7N ▼0.4%
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Scout’s note
Josh Hader is a 32-year-old left-handed reliever from Millersville, Maryland, a 19th-round pick in 2012 who has struck out 884 in 513 career games. He has one strikeout across three MLB outings this September — quiet by his standard.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Hader here — The Overnight: 250 career saves (September 4, 2026)
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $19.00M
- Tax hit
- $19.00M
- Service time
- 9 yr 115 d
- Guaranteed
- $95M
The deal 5 years $95M (2024–2028) — $19.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 5 y/$95M (24-28) · agent CAA · 2 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | $19.0M | Free agent |
| Tax hit | $19.0M | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $19.0M
- Guaranteed
- $95.0M
- Term
- 5 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | $19.0M | $19.0M | $19.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
The Wire
▬ Quiet week on X.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-10-12 · newest post 2026-10-11 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
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Umpire favor
+0.8 net runs over 18 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Josh Hader’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · HOU vs. CWS · 1.1 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 1 · HOU vs. CWS · 1.0 IP, 1 K, 0 ER
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →