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Hunter Brown
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 220 lb · born Detroit, MI, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 5 · played P 24 · MLB debut 2022-09-05
451 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Hunter Brown, 28, from Detroit, has 709 strikeouts in 120 MLB games. He struck out four in his lone big-league appearance these last two weeks, staying on form.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $8.01M
- Tax hit
- $8.01M
- Service time
- 4 yr 35 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal A2
On the sheet: A2 · agent Boras Corp.
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $5.71M
- Guaranteed
- $5.71M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on Hunter Brown
The scouting press, in their own words
Coming up on the Award-Winning Front Office Show @mlbnetworkradio guests will include: Former Astros GM Dana Brown (exclusive) Matt Quatraro, MGR KC Royals (13-2 last 15) SXM 89 @JimBowdenGM @JimDuquetteGM 10-1 pm et
The Baseball Insiders: Dana Brown is out in Houston; free agency thoughts; Dodgers injuries. With @AdamWeinrib: https://t.co/A1Ye1sMGEH
The Astros announced that the club and General Manager Dana Brown have mutually agreed to part ways. Brown’s contract was set to expire at the end of the 2026 season.
Umpire favor
+0.3 net runs over 21 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The postseason
Hunter Brown’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- AL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · HOU vs. CWS · 0.2 IP, 2 K, 3 ER
The line
Bio & season lines: MLB StatsAPI · refreshed nightly · abbreviations →