Here’s what to know about left-handed pitcher Colton Gordon, a player the Milwaukee Brewers will reportedly receive in a trade with the Houston Astros that also includes veteran right-hander Lance McCullers:
How old is Colton Gordon?
The 6-foot-4, 225-pounder is 27 years old and will turn 28 just before Christmas.
Where is Colton Gordon from?
He’s a Florida native who attended the University of Central Florida, and the Astros selected him in the eighth round of the 2021 draft.
What are Colton Gordon’s stats this year?
Gordon has pitched 14 games at AAA this year (13 starts) with a 6-3 record, 3.69 ERA and 1.17 WHIP. He last pitched July 10 in the minors, allowing no runs and four hits in six innings, with seven strikeouts. He’s a former top-10 prospect in the Astros organization.
He’s worked 9⅓ rough innings in the big leagues this year, all in April, allowing six home runs and three walks with an 11.57 ERA.
In 2025, when he made his big-league debut, he had a 5.34 ERA in 20 games (14 starts), with 72 strikeouts and 103 hits allowed in 86 innings.
He had a 3.38 ERA across 11 starts in 2025 and a 3.94 ERA over 24 starts in 2024. All of those appearances were with Class AAA Sugar Land. He also made six starts in 2023 for AAA, so he’s a long-tenured Triple-A pitcher at this point.
Will Colton Gordon start with the Brewers in the majors or AAA?
It remains to be seen. At the time of the trade, he was in the minors, and Milwaukee’s Class AAA Nashville squad has also been besieged by pitching injuries and call-ups, so he’ll be a welcome addition wherever he winds up and will almost certainly see the mound in Milwaukee at some point this year, if not right away.
Gordon has one more option year remaining after this season and five years of team control.
What kind of pitches does Colton Gordon throw?
He’s been heavy on four-seam fastball and sweeper at the big-league level, with a dash of sinker and changeup. He gets elite extension on the mound and gets good chase but isn’t going to wow you with his velocity.
What else should you know about Colton Gordon?
- Chandler Rome of The Athletic wrote a story in 2025 that chronicled how Gordon, bored and feeling isolated while he rehabbed from Tommy John surgery after he’d been drafted, walked into a pizza parlor, asked for a job and delivered pizzas for four months, even as a minor-leaguer.
- He pitched for Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
- He shares a birthday (Dec. 20) with another new Brewers pitching acquisition, Bryse Wilson (Wilson was born one year earlier).
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Who is Colton Gordon? What to know about reported new Brewers pitcher
