How Acquired

Hayden Harris was a non-drafted free agent back in July of 2022. He is known for leveraging LinkedIn to get teams interested in signing him after the draft.

What Were Expectations?

There were not many expectations for Hayden coming into 2025. He was coming off of a dominant stretch for Mississippi back in 2024, but struggled in his stint with Gwinnett, with an inability to garner whiffs with his secondary offerings to play off of his unique fastball. The result was that he entered 2025 back in Double-A, this time Columbus, to see how he would progress this season. The strikeouts had always been there for Hayden, who had a strikeout rate of nearly 15K/9, but his walk rate ballooned up to 5 BB/9, mainly from his inability to locate his sweeper inside the zone. If hitters coul

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