Josh Hader
P | B/T: L/L | 5' 11" 180LBS | Age: 29

Draft: 2012 | Rd: 19, #582, Baltimore Orioles | Old Mill Senior HS (MD)

Stats

W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP
2023 0 0 0.82 22 0 13 22.0 32 0.73
7 Seasons 18 18 2.59 310 0 145 354.1 595 0.91
G W-L ERA IP SO WHIP
2023 22 0-0 0.82 22.0 32 0.73
7 Seasons 310 18-18 2.59 354.1 595 0.91

Statcast Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls
Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity
Max EV Launch
Angle
Sweet
Spot %
XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB% ERA xERA
2017 23 779 94 5 5.3 2.7 86.1 109.9 22.4 25.5 .158 .265 .251 .249 .312 25.5 36.2 11.7 2.08 2.61
2018 24 1316 132 14 10.6 4.6 87.5 113.9 20.4 39.4 .149 .271 .219 .231 .376 32.6 46.7 9.8 2.43 2.22
2019 25 1181 127 16 12.6 5.5 90.8 110.0 26.0 33.1 .154 .322 .247 .235 .422 42.0 47.8 6.9 2.62 2.39
2020 26 372 34 5 14.7 6.4 85.4 108.0 23.9 26.5 .144 .285 .259 .268 .346 26.5 39.7 12.8 3.79 2.99
2021 27 964 96 6 6.3 2.7 87.5 115.1 22.0 40.6 .154 .239 .200 .229 .349 30.2 45.5 10.7 1.23 2.18
2022 28 943 113 13 11.5 5.9 87.7 113.2 16.4 45.1 .196 .359 .313 .292 .412 36.3 37.0 9.6 5.22 3.51
2023 29 362 41 2 4.9 2.4 86.8 109.8 24.4 29.3 .119 .177 .164 .184 .227 26.8 39.0 11.0 0.82 1.39
Player 5917 637 61 9.6 4.4 87.8 115.1 21.7 35.9 .157 .285 .240 .243 .366 32.9 42.9 9.8
MLB 6.8 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.1 33.0 .245 .405 .316 .315 .368 36.0 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Statcast Pitch Arsenal

Hader relies on 3 pitches.
Sinker
(82.6%) ,
Slider
(14.1%) ,
Changeup
(3.3%) ,


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Pitch Tracking



Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2017 36.2 28.7 20.2 14.9 33.0 35.1 31.9 6.4 21.3 39.4 20.2 5.3 5.3 2.7
2018 31.1 28.0 28.0 12.9 31.8 35.6 32.6 6.8 22.7 34.1 20.5 3.8 10.6 4.6
2019 22.0 33.1 26.0 18.9 31.5 33.9 34.6 0.8 15.7 37.0 22.0 5.5 12.6 5.5
2020 26.5 29.4 20.6 23.5 41.2 35.3 23.5 5.9 14.7 47.1 14.7 2.9 14.7 6.4
2021 32.3 32.3 22.9 12.5 36.5 34.4 29.2 3.1 17.7 36.5 27.1 7.3 6.3 2.7
2022 31.0 31.9 30.1 7.1 36.3 32.7 31.0 3.5 23.0 29.2 26.5 6.2 11.5 5.9
2023 34.1 34.1 12.2 19.5 34.1 34.1 31.7 2.4 24.4 51.2 17.1 0.0 4.9 2.4
Player 30.1 30.9 24.6 14.3 34.1 34.4 31.6 4.1 20.1 36.7 22.3 5.0 9.6 4.4
MLB 44.8 23.2 24.9 7.1 36.8 37.7 25.4 3.9 33.0 24.6 24.4 5.8 6.8 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Pitch Movement


How this works: Every pitch is affected by the forces of gravity, which means that every pitch drops on its way from the mound to the plate. These numbers are reported with gravity, which makes them larger and different than other pitch movement numbers you may have seen. Since gravity requires time, and slower pitches aren’t ‘better’ just because they have more time to move, the movement of a pitch is compared to ‘average’ movement by comparing it to other MLB pitch types within +/- 2 MPH and from within +/- 0.5 feet of extension and release.
Vertical Movement (inches) Horizontal Movement (inches)
Year Pitch Team Hand # MPH Inches of Drop vs Avg % vs Avg Inches of Break vs Avg % Break vs Avg
2023 Slider SD L 51 85.9 36.4 1.0 3 2.1 -3.1 -60
2023 Sinker SD L 299 96.0 10.9 -9.2 -46 7.6 -7.6 -50
2023 Changeup SD L 12 88.4 25.1 -5.3 -17 14.5 -0.1 -1
2022 Slider SD L 267 84.0 38.3 1.1 3 4.1 -2.4 -37
2022 Changeup SD L 21 88.6 27.9 -4.1 -13 13.4 -1.2 -8
2022 Sinker SD L 655 97.4 11.3 -7.8 -41 8.5 -6.5 -43
2021 4-Seamer MIL L 1 96.4 9.0 5.3 37 2.9 -5.4 -65
2021 Slider MIL L 258 83.6 37.4 -1.2 -3 3.9 -3.7 -48
2021 Changeup MIL L 64 87.7 31.8 -1.0 -3 14.2 -0.7 -5
2021 Sinker MIL L 607 96.4 12.1 -7.4 -38 9.8 -5.3 -35
2020 Slider MIL L 120 80.3 42.7 0.9 2 7.5 -0.8 -9
2020 Sinker MIL L 252 94.5 13.6 -7.3 -35 9.9 -4.8 -33
2019 Slider MIL L 176 81.9 39.1 -1.4 -4 7.5 -0.3 -4
2019 Sinker MIL L 960 95.5 12.6 -7.0 -36 9.6 -4.6 -32
2019 Changeup MIL L 3 86.8 29.6 -2.3 -7 13.6 -1.2 -8
2018 Changeup MIL L 5 85.2 31.3 -1.4 -4 9.0 -5.3 -37
2018 Sinker MIL L 1,038 94.5 13.5 -6.9 -34 9.4 -4.6 -33
2018 Slider MIL L 269 81.9 36.9 -3.0 -7 5.8 -1.7 -22
2017 Slider MIL L 87 80.3 37.7 -1.7 -4 8.9 1.4 18
2017 Changeup MIL L 57 85.3 28.9 -1.6 -5 10.8 -3.3 -23
2017 Sinker MIL L 634 94.3 11.4 -8.2 -42 7.8 -7.1 -48
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2023 Sinker -2.6 -8 299 82.6 63 .107 .179 .187 31.3 34.9 24.4 .129 .189 .200 26.5
2023 Slider -3.9 -2 51 14.1 14 .000 .000 .050 59.3 57.1 38.1 .057 .109 .114 20.0
2023 Changeup 2.1 0 12 3.3 4 .250 .250 .225 33.3 50.0 28.6 .181 .229 .176 50.0
2022 Sinker 0.6 4 655 69.5 156 .241 .406 .336 30.7 32.7 25.0 .207 .368 .308 38.1
2022 Slider 0.0 0 267 28.3 54 .163 .327 .252 54.3 50.0 33.8 .143 .271 .234 26.1
2022 Changeup 3.6 1 21 2.2 9 .333 .778 .561 18.2 33.3 27.3 .328 .698 .436 50.0
2021 Sinker -2.6 -16 630 65.4 136 .103 .171 .196 40.5 45.6 29.8 .140 .230 .229 37.5
2021 Slider -2.4 -6 268 27.8 69 .159 .238 .217 57.3 49.3 35.1 .158 .232 .214 13.8
2021 Changeup -1.6 -1 65 6.7 18 .176 .176 .189 43.8 33.3 27.3 .239 .330 .272 36.4
2021 4-Seamer 19.7 0 1 0.1 1 -- -- .700 -- 0.0 -- -- -- .700 --
2020 Sinker 0.2 0 252 67.7 49 .179 .462 .353 33.3 30.6 17.2 .164 .361 .315 29.2
2020 Slider -1.9 -2 120 32.3 29 .038 .038 .103 51.0 55.2 29.1 .116 .172 .186 20.0
2019 Sinker -1.0 -10 960 81.3 229 .171 .424 .284 40.7 48.5 34.8 .170 .366 .259 46.5
2019 Slider -3.4 -6 176 14.9 44 .070 .140 .118 45.8 52.3 27.4 .089 .138 .126 20.0
2019 Changeup 2.7 0 3 0.3 -- -- -- 100.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 Sinker -1.3 -14 1,038 78.9 245 .131 .280 .238 35.6 44.5 30.5 .159 .306 .257 35.5
2018 Slider -1.8 -5 269 20.4 61 .138 .207 .152 55.4 55.7 37.4 .112 .142 .131 20.0
2018 Changeup 4.6 0 5 0.4 -- -- -- 0.0 -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2017 Sinker -1.6 -10 634 81.4 155 .162 .292 .273 37.3 37.4 27.4 .167 .271 .262 28.4
2017 Slider -4.0 -3 87 11.2 21 .053 .053 .110 41.3 38.1 23.5 .070 .083 .128 0.0
2017 Changeup 0.7 0 57 7.3 11 .273 .545 .290 23.8 18.2 16.7 .217 .540 .312 33.3
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Spin Direction

Year Pitch Type Pitches MPH Active Spin % Total Movement (In.) Spin-Based Observed Deviation
2020 Sinker 231 94.6 98 19.5 10:45 11:00 -15
2020 Slider 110 80.3 37 8.7 4:00 3:30 30
2021 Changeup 63 87.6 98 15.2 9:45 9:15 30
2021 Sinker 585 96.3 99 19.8 11:00 11:00 0
2021 Slider 255 83.5 18 4.7 3:00 2:45 15
2022 Changeup 20 88.6 95 15.7 9:45 9:45 0
2022 Sinker 634 97.4 99 19.3 11:00 11:00 0
2022 Slider 262 84.0 19 5.0 3:45 3:15 30
2023 Changeup 12 88.4 98 17.7 9:45 10:00 -15
2023 Sinker 289 95.9 98 20.3 11:00 11:15 -15
2023 Slider 51 85.9 14 3.5 3:00 3:15 -15
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2017 187 778 -9 -11 4 2 -13
2018 341 1,450 -17 -16 6 3 -24
2019 279 1,169 -6 -16 0 8 -14
2020 82 391 -6 -4 3 4 -3
2021 233 995 -13 -19 4 5 -24
2022 237 1,023 -8 -4 10 4 2
2023 81 362 -7 -4 0 1 -10
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Strike % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2017 779 53.5 68.8 65.4 27.6 53.0 43.4 58.5 49.6 37.0 6.0 85.1
2018 1,316 51.6 73.0 66.3 29.8 45.3 45.4 60.5 52.1 39.2 8.7 86.0
2019 1,181 52.4 80.6 61.7 34.9 48.1 42.9 63.4 59.0 41.8 7.8 86.5
2020 372 46.8 69.0 70.0 24.7 38.8 37.4 52.6 45.4 38.5 6.7 80.0
2021 964 47.1 73.1 65.7 31.2 32.1 42.4 60.3 50.9 45.2 6.2 90.0
2022 943 46.8 68.3 67.8 28.3 52.8 41.9 52.5 47.0 36.6 5.9 82.1
2023 362 41.7 71.5 75.9 34.1 44.4 40.9 54.3 49.7 35.6 6.1 68.2
Player 5,917 49.6 72.9 66.0 30.4 45.2 42.8 58.7 51.6 39.8 7.0 84.7
MLB 48.5 66.9 82.0 28.4 58.2 42.6 60.8 47.1 24.7 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA /
xERA
xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Hard
Hit%
K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate
FB
Velo
FB
Spin
CB
Spin
Extension
2017 73 18 95
2018 99 99 97 79 99 56 2 73 73 100 25 99 72 77 10 94
2019 99 100 94 51 100 51 1 6 9 100 70 100 95 84 19 94
2020 87 99 95 63 77 56 1 92 96 98 14 96 22 75 10 89
2021 99 100 100 97 97 96 72 78 95 100 20 100 81 90 15 80
2022 64 90 64 26 69 62 4 69 63 98 25 97 37 95 8 86
2023 100 100 100 99 99 87 80 81 96 98 22 93 90 87 22 80
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2017 19.6 4 3.6 0 4 1 3 75.0
2018 22.9 9 9.8 -1 4 8 3 33.3
2019 22.9 15 12.6 2 2 10 6 40.0
2020 23.6 3 2.3 1 0 2 1 33.3
2021 24.3 4 3.3 1 2 0 3 75.0
2022 23.3 8 7.6 0 6 4 5 62.5
2023 20.2 1 0.9 0 2 1 0 0.0
Player 22.8 44 40.2 4 20 26 21 47.7

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2017 4 3 4 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 3 3 4 3 3 3 6 4 3 3 3 6 4 3 3
2018 9 11 6 11 10 10 12 8 8 7 10 14 11 8 10 12 10 9 9 13 9 9 13 9 8 7 10 12 10 11 6
2019 15 14 11 11 13 13 13 12 12 9 12 13 16 11 13 14 12 12 10 12 12 14 16 14 12 12 12 16 15 13 10
2020 3 2 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 2
2021 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 4 3 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 3
2022 8 6 5 9 7 7 8 7 5 6 6 8 10 6 8 9 7 6 8 8 8 8 12 7 6 6 10 13 8 8 7
2023 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Player 44 40 33 42 40 41 43 37 33 31 38 46 49 34 40 46 39 36 39 42 40 41 55 42 34 33 41 53 45 41 32
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2017 2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Fastball Velocity 94.3 94.5 0.2 ↑ 95.5 1.0 ↑ 94.5 -1.0 ↓ 96.4 1.9 ↑ 97.4 1.0 ↑ 96.0 -1.4 ↓
Offspeed Velocity 85.3 85.2 -0.1 ↓ 86.8 1.6 ↑ 0.0 0.0 87.7 0.0 88.6 0.9 ↑ 88.4 -0.2 ↓
Breaking Velocity 80.3 81.9 1.6 ↑ 81.9 0.0 80.3 -1.6 ↓ 83.6 3.3 ↑ 84.0 0.4 ↑ 85.9 1.9 ↑
Exit Velocity 86.1 87.5 1.4 ↑ 90.8 3.3 ↑ 85.4 -5.4 ↓ 87.5 2.1 ↑ 87.7 0.2 ↑ 86.8 -0.9 ↓
Launch Angle 22.4 20.4 -2.0 ↓ 26.0 5.6 ↑ 23.9 -2.1 ↓ 22.0 -1.9 ↓ 16.4 -5.6 ↓ 24.4 8.0 ↑
Barrel % 5.3 10.6 5.3 ↑ 12.6 2.0 ↑ 14.7 2.1 ↑ 6.3 -8.4 ↓ 11.5 5.2 ↑ 4.9 -6.6 ↓
Hard Hit % 25.5 32.6 7.1 ↑ 42.0 9.4 ↑ 26.5 -15.5 ↓ 30.2 3.7 ↑ 36.3 6.1 ↑ 26.8 -9.5 ↓
Sweet Spot % 25.5 39.4 13.9 ↑ 33.1 -6.3 ↓ 26.5 -6.6 ↓ 40.6 14.1 ↑ 45.1 4.5 ↑ 29.3 -15.8 ↓
xBA .158 .149 -0.009 ↓ .154 0.005 ↑ .144 -0.010 ↓ .154 0.010 ↑ .196 0.042 ↑ .119 -0.077 ↓
BA .156 .132 -0.024 ↓ .155 0.023 ↑ .123 -0.032 ↓ .127 0.004 ↑ .225 0.098 ↑ .096 -0.129 ↓
xwOBA .249 .231 -0.018 ↓ .235 0.004 ↑ .268 0.033 ↑ .229 -0.039 ↓ .292 0.063 ↑ .184 -0.108 ↓
wOBA .251 .219 -0.032 ↓ .247 0.028 ↑ .259 0.012 ↑ .200 -0.059 ↓ .313 0.113 ↑ .164 -0.149 ↓
xSLG .265 .271 0.006 ↑ .322 0.051 ↑ .285 -0.037 ↓ .239 -0.046 ↓ .359 0.120 ↑ .177 -0.182 ↓
SLG .281 .265 -0.016 ↓ .366 0.101 ↑ .292 -0.074 ↓ .193 -0.099 ↓ .403 0.210 ↑ .151 -0.252 ↓
K% 36.2 46.7 10.5 ↑ 47.8 1.1 ↑ 39.7 -8.1 ↓ 45.5 5.8 ↑ 37.0 -8.5 ↓ 39.0 2.0 ↑
BB% 11.7 9.8 -1.9 ↓ 6.9 -2.9 ↓ 12.8 5.9 ↑ 10.7 -2.1 ↓ 9.6 -1.1 ↓ 11.0 1.4 ↑
Swing % 49.6 52.1 2.5 ↑ 59.0 6.9 ↑ 45.4 -13.6 ↓ 50.9 5.5 ↑ 47.0 -3.9 ↓ 49.7 2.7 ↑
Whiff% 37.0 39.2 2.2 ↑ 41.8 2.6 ↑ 38.5 -3.3 ↓ 45.2 6.7 ↑ 36.6 -8.6 ↓ 35.6 -1.0 ↓
In Zone % 53.5 51.6 -1.9 ↓ 52.4 0.8 ↑ 46.8 -5.6 ↓ 47.1 0.3 ↑ 46.8 -0.3 ↓ 41.7 -5.1 ↓
Out of Zone % 46.5 48.4 1.9 ↑ 47.6 -0.8 ↓ 53.2 5.6 ↑ 52.9 -0.3 ↓ 53.2 0.3 ↑ 58.3 5.1 ↑
Out of Zone Swing % 27.6 29.8 2.2 ↑ 34.9 5.1 ↑ 24.7 -10.2 ↓ 31.2 6.5 ↑ 28.3 -2.9 ↓ 34.1 5.8 ↑
First Pitch Swing % 28.7 37.6 8.9 ↑ 43.9 6.3 ↑ 24.4 -19.5 ↓ 31.7 7.3 ↑ 26.9 -4.8 ↓ 28.4 1.5 ↑
First Pitch Strike % 58.5 60.5 2.0 ↑ 63.4 2.9 ↑ 52.6 -10.8 ↓ 60.3 7.7 ↑ 52.5 -7.8 ↓ 54.3 1.8 ↑
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Statcast Shift Statistics

vs RHHvs LHH
YearPAwOBAPAShifts%PAShifts%
2017 186 .248 114 6 5.3 72 6 8.3
2018 306 .219 204 0 0.0 102 6 5.9
2019 287 .247 221 1 0.5 66 6 9.1
2020 78 .259 62 9 14.5 16 10 62.5
2021 224 .200 174 3 1.7 50 11 22.0
2022 219 .313 170 14 8.2 49 13 26.5
2023 77 .164 57 0 0.0 20 0 0.0

Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2017 221 17.8 21.7% 2.3% 116 23.0 0.0% 9.5%
2018 408 19.6 6.6% 2.0% 134 23.4 0.0% 16.4%
2019 273 23.4 0.0% 9.5% 147 27.8 0.0% 33.3%
2020 106 18.3 12.3% 1.9% 65 23.0 0.0% 12.3%
2021 266 20.9 3.4% 8.6% 138 25.1 0.0% 21.7%
2022 251 22.1 1.2% 8.8% 180 25.2 0.0% 14.4%
2023 69 15.8 26.1% 0.0% 31 18.8 6.5% 0.0%
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Pitch Distribution