Josh Hader is a three-time winner of the Nationwide League’s Reliever of the Yr Award, a hard-throwing lefty who has piled up 14.7 strikeouts per 9 innings over his eight-year profession.
He has additionally been the perfect lefthanded reduction pitcher within the main leagues since 2020, based on my rankings.
I calculated the general base values for all lefties who made no less than 150 reduction appearances throughout the previous 5 seasons. OBV is a comparability of the bases a given pitcher surrendered (via hits, walks, hit batters, stolen bases, and sacrifices) and the quantity relinquished by a mean big-league pitcher.
Hader appeared in 269 video games for the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, and Houston Astros between 2020 and 2024. He allowed opponents to achieve 410 bases in 255 innings. The standard pitcher would have yielded 525 bases underneath the identical circumstances. Hader’s whole was 115 bases lower than common, giving him an OBV of plus-115, the perfect five-year determine for any lefty understanding of the bullpen.
That wasn’t the one signal of Hader’s superiority. He held opposing hitters to a .168 batting common and a .267 on-base share between 2020 and 2024, whereas piling up 150 saves. All of these stats had been the perfect amongst all lefthanded relievers.
No one else on this class reached triple digits in OBV. The runners-up had been Tanner Scott (plus-94 for the Baltimore Orioles, Miami Marlins, and San Diego Padres) and A.J. Minter (plus-82 for the Atlanta Braves).
Look under for the half-decade’s 10 greatest lefthanded reduction pitchers. Every is listed with fundamental stats for 2020-2024: innings pitched, saves, earned run common, and total base worth.
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1. Josh Hader (IP 255.0, SV 150, ERA 2.93) — OBV +115
2. Tanner Scott (IP 287.1, SV 55, ERA 3.07) — OBV +94
3. A.J. Minter (IP 243.0, SV 16, ERA 2.85) — OBV +82
4. Matt Strahm (IP 222.1, SV 9, ERA 3.08) — OBV +74
5. Wandy Peralta (IP 227.0, SV 13, ERA 3.17) — OBV +73
6. Andrew Chafin (IP 243.1, SV 18, ERA 3.25) — OBV +70
7. Brooks Raley (IP 184.1, SV 12, ERA 3.42) — OBV +66
8. Alex Vesia (IP 214.2, SV 8, ERA 2.89) — OBV +58
9. Brent Suter (IP 306.2, SV 3, ERA 3.32) — OBV +57
10. Joe Mantiply (IP 200.2, SV 3, ERA 3.77) — OBV +45
