Cristian Javier
Cristian Javier is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball.Career
Javier signed with the Houston Astros as an international free agent in March 2015.
He spent his first professional season with the Dominican Summer League Astros, going 4–0 with a 2.13 ERA over innings. He played 2016 with the Gulf Coast Astros and Greeneville Astros, pitching to a 4–2 record and 2.29 ERA with 66 strikeouts in 51 innings, and 2017 with the Tri-City ValleyCats, Quad Cities River Bandits and Buies Creek Astros, compiling a 3–0 record and 2.25 ERA in 14 games. He pitched in 2018 with Quad Cities and Buies Creek, going 7–6 with a 2.70 ERA with 146 strikeouts over 110 innings. He opened the 2019 season with the Fayetteville Woodpeckers before being promoted to the Corpus Christi Hooks on May 15. He was promoted to the Round Rock Express on August 23. Over 26 games with the three clubs, Javier went 8-3 with a 1.74 ERA, striking out 170 over innings.
Javier was added to the Astros 40–man roster following the 2019 season. Javier made his major league debut on July 25, 2020, pitching 1 scoreless inning against the Seattle Mariners. He made his first career start on July 29, 2020 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
