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$95 Million All-Star Breaks Silence on Contract Discussions With Yankees
The New York Yankees have been linked to nearly every premier free agent pitcher this offseason, including Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Jordan Montgomery.
But their pursuit of Josh Hader, a five-time All-Star and three-time National League Reliever of the Year award winner, was particularly interesting as landing him would have completely reshaped the Yankees’ bullpen and seen the team make a major investment in the kind of shutdown closer they haven’t had since Mariano Rivera.
Shortly after agreeing to a record five-year, $95 million deal with the Houston Astros, Hader revealed exactly how far negotiations with the Yankees had reached.