HOUSTON, TX – November 14, 2025 – Houston Astros right-hander Hunter Brown was named to the All-MLB Second Team on Thursday night during the MLB Awards presented by MGM Rewards at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, earning recognition as one of the 10 best starting pitchers in baseball during the 2025 regular season.
Brown was the lone Astros player selected to either the First or Second Team, representing Houston on a list that featured 32 total players split between 17 teams. The Mariners and Phillies led all clubs with four selections apiece, while the Yankees and World Series champion Dodgers each had three.
The 27-year-old Brown posted career-best numbers across the board in 2025, going 12-9 with a 2.43 ERA and 1.03 WHIP over 31 starts. He struck out 206 batters in 185⅓ innings while allowing only 133 hits and posting a .201 opponent batting average—numbers that ranked among the American League’s elite.
Brown joins a distinguished Second Team starting pitching group that includes Freddy Peralta of the Brewers, Cristopher Sánchez and Zack Wheeler of the Phillies, and Bryan Woo of the Mariners. The First Team featured Garrett Crochet (Red Sox), Max Fried (Yankees), Paul Skenes (Pirates), Tarik Skubal (Tigers), and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Dodgers).
The All-MLB Team, established in 2019 and now in its seventh season, honors the best players in Major League Baseball over the course of the regular season. The 2025 selections were determined through a voting process in which 50% of the vote came from fans and 50% from a panel of experts, with voters asked to consider only regular season performance.
Brown’s breakout season included a remarkable 28-inning scoreless streak from April 3-27—the longest in MLB during 2025—and AL Pitcher of the Month honors for June. His 2.43 ERA ranks 10th all-time in Astros franchise history and represents the second-lowest by an Astros pitcher with at least 180 innings since the team joined the American League in 2013.
The Second Team selection caps an extraordinary individual season for Brown in what was otherwise a disappointing year for the Astros, who missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.
