Bryan Abreu

BIOGRAPHY

Bryan Enrique Abreu was born on April 22, 1997, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is a pitcher in the MLB.

Abreu signed with the Houston Astros as an international free agent in November 2013. He made his professional debut in 2014 with the Dominican Summer League Astros, going 0-2 with a 6.55 ERA over 22 relief innings pitched. He returned to the DSL in 2015, pitching to a 2-2 record and a 3.83 ERA over 14 games (ten starts). In 2016, he began the year with the Greenville Astros before being reassigned to the Gulf Coast League Astros. Over 38.2 innings, he went 2-5 with a 4.89 ERA. He returned to Greenville in 2017, compiling a 1-3 record with a 7.98 ERA in eight games (six starts), and in 2018, he pitched for both the Tri-City ValleyCats and the Quad Cities River Bandits, going 6-1 with a 1.49 ERA over 14 games (seven starts).

The Astros added Abreu to their 40-man roster after the 2018 season. In 2019, he began the year with the Fayetteville Woodpeckers before being promoted to the Corpus Christi Hooks, with whom he was named a Texas League All-Star.

On July 31, 2019, the Astros promoted Abreu to the major leagues. He made his major league debut that night, pitching a scoreless inning in relief. The following day, he was optioned back to Double-A Corpus Christi.

Abreu closed out the last three outs on July 23, 2022, in a 3–1 win versus the Seattle Mariners for his first save on the season. He authored a breakout season in 2022, appearing in career-high 55 games, producing a 1.94 ERA, 4–0 W–L record, two saves, 2.12 Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP), and 88 strikeouts, leading the Astros with 13.1 strikeouts per nine innings pitched (K/9).

In a three-game sweep of the Mariners in the 2022 American League Division Series (ALDS), Abreu appeared in each game, delivering 3+1⁄3 shutout innings, allowing two total baserunners, and striking out six.

In Game 4 of the 2022 World Series, Abreu struck out the side in the seventh inning of a 5–0 combined no-hitter of the Philadelphia Phillies. Cristian Javier was the starting pitcher. and Rafael Montero and Ryan Pressly followed Abreu. It was the third no-hitter in major league postseason history, and the second in World Series play, following Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956. The Astros defeated the Phillies in six games to give Abreu his first career World Series title. Abreu pitched 11+1⁄3 shutout innings in the 2022 postseason, appearing in 10 of the Astros' 13 contests, and striking out 19 batters.