Players · B · Pitcher · 2026

Hunter Brown

Age: 28
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #58

Born: August 29, 1998 in Detroit, MI, United States
MLB debut: September 5, 2022
Drafted: 2019, round 5
College: Wayne State
Salary, 2026: $5.71M

dbWAR: 11.6
IP: 107.1
ERA: 3.19
FIP: 3.77
K/9: 10.4
FIP−: 90

Hunter Brown is a starting pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he struck out 124 batters over 107.1 innings across 20 appearances, 20 of them starts, going 6-4. His ERA of 3.19 is 23.7% lower than the league average of 4.18 — the third best on his team, and 119th of 538 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.77 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 26.7% of swings (11.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 27.5%. His 1.8 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2026.

FIP3.77

K/910.4

WHIP1.27

WAR1.8

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	HOU	20	20	107.1	6	4	81	38	124	55	3.19	3.77	1.27	10.4	4.6	76	90	1.8
2025	HOU	31	31	185.1	12	9	133	50	206	57	2.43	3.14	1.03	10.0	2.8	58	76	4.4
2024	HOU	31	30	170.0	11	9	156	66	179	60	3.49	3.58	1.27	9.5	3.2	86	88	3.1
2023	HOU	31	29	155.2	11	13	157	88	178	55	5.09	4.37	1.36	10.3	3.2	117	101	1.7
2022	HOU	7	2	20.1	2	0	15	2	22	7	0.89	1.98	1.08	9.7	3.1	22	50	0.6

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	261	220	45	7	37	79	.205	.323	.332	.304	30.3%
vs RHB	190	170	36	4	18	45	.212	.295	.300	.275	23.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Hunter Brown throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	31.4%	590	96.0	2,136	52.2%	21.3%	123	.187	.634
Four-Seam Fastball	30.0%	564	96.2	2,233	47.0%	23.6%	93	.161	.548
Knuckle Curve	18.3%	345	83.5	2,523	40.9%	36.0%	92	.239	.572
Slider	9.4%	176	90.9	2,236	42.0%	22.4%	43	.256	.729
Changeup	8.9%	168	87.5	1,469	39.9%	40.6%	31	.290	.952
Cutter	1.4%	26	92.8	2,215	53.8%	35.7%	5	—	—
Slurve	0.6%	12	86.6	2,244	25.0%	20.0%	5	—	—

Hunter Brown's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Similar players

Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Joey CantilloCLE

ERA: 3.62
FIP: 3.98
SO: 171
WAR: 2.3

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Taj BradleyMIN

ERA: 3.73
FIP: 3.83
SO: 205
WAR: 2.8

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Christian ScottNYM

ERA: 3.85
FIP: 3.61
SO: 134
WAR: 2.0

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Trey YesavageTOR

ERA: 3.67
FIP: 4.14
SO: 94
WAR: 1.2

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.