{"id":566588,"date":"2026-02-11T17:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566588\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:49:15","slug":"righty-hunter-brown-named-opening-day-starter-by-houston-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566588\/","title":{"rendered":"Righty Hunter Brown named Opening Day starter by Houston Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/hunter-brown-392803\/1159686\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/hunter-brown-392803\/1159686\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Brown<\/a> gets the start on Opening Day for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/houston-astros\/242\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/houston-astros\/242\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Manager Joe Espada announced the righty would be taking the hill for the Mar. 26 game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brown, 27, heads into his fifth big league season. The native of Detroit finished third in American League Cy Young Award voting in 2025. Brown was 12-9 with a 2.43 earned run average and WHIP of 1.025 over 185.1 innings pitched across 31 starts. His season was rewarded with his first career All-Star appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/framber-valdez\/873146\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/framber-valdez\/873146\" target=\"_blank\">Framber Valdez<\/a> had been the team\u2019s Opening Day starter for the past four seasons, but the lefty departed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/detroit-tigers\/230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/detroit-tigers\/230\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> in free agency, signing a three-year, $115 million deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hunter Brown gets the start on Opening Day for the Houston Astros. Manager Joe Espada announced the righty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[30173,42,5,139,54,47174,3211,74611,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-566588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-astros","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-astros","13":"tag-houston-astros-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-242","14":"tag-houstonastros","15":"tag-hunter-brown-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1159686","16":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116053263372418101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}