{"id":567963,"date":"2026-02-12T10:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567963\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:17:45","slug":"astros-hunter-brown-to-be-starting-pitcher-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567963\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Hunter Brown to be starting pitcher Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston Astros manager Joe Espada reported pitcher Hunter Brown will be the starter for Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">FOX 26&#8217;s Nate Griffin is down in Florida as the Astros kickoff Spring Training.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Espada briefly spoke to the press where he made the announcement of Brown as starter.<\/p>\n<p>  Hunter Brown starting Opening Day <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Brown, a right-handed pitcher, debuted with the Astros in 2022.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">In 2025, he played 31 games during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/mlb\/astros\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Houston Astros manager Joe Espada reported pitcher Hunter Brown will be the starter for Opening Day.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4,169,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-567963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houstonastros","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116057148257412231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567963","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=567963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}