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Hunter Brown 2025 Fantasy Baseball Outlook: After Disastrous First Month, Astros' Fireballer Rebounded to Set the Stage for Dominant 2025
At the end of April 2024, only Kyle Hendricks' ERA of 12.00 was worse than Hunter Brown's 9.78. The young Houston Astros' fireballer led the league in losses (0-4) and had walked almost 5.5 batters per nine innings. After a reset with the pitching coaches and an inspirational conversation with teammate Alex Bregman, Brown turned his season around in a massive way. From May 1 until the end of the regular season, Brown's 2.51 ERA was fourth in all of baseball and he struck out 9.5 batters per nine while walking just 2.8. He was able to harness his pitches and location which allowed his swinging strike rate to explode from an abysmal rate of under 5% in his first five starts to over 10% the rest of the season. His combination of a powerful fastball plus a lethal sinker/cutter combo allowed him to have the fourth-highest soft-hit rate and the eighth-best HR/9 ratio over the last five months. Now entering his prime at age 26, Brown could end up being a steal in 2025 fantasy baseball drafts, currently going just after pick 100 in NFBC drafts. If fantasy managers get the May-September version of Hunter Brown for this season, he could wind up as a top-15 starter.
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