


McCade David Brown (born August 15, 2000) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2025.
Amateur career
Brown attended Normal Community West High School in Normal, Illinois. He considered quitting baseball before making the varsity team, but continued after his mother arranged private training for him. His school's baseball team won two regional championships and a conference championship. In 2018, he went 8–2 with a 1.64 ERA and a school-record 124 strikeouts.
Brown then played college baseball at Indiana University. He pitched only 6+2⁄3 innings during his first two seasons with the Hoosiers, with the 2020 season ending early due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That summer, he pitched in collegiate summer baseball for the Normal CornBelters in the Kernels Collegiate League. He was named the player of the week by Collegiate Baseballand D1Baseball and pitcher of the week by Perfect Game and the Big 10 Conference after striking out a school-record 16 Penn State batters in seven scoreless, no-hit innings on March 13, 2021. That season, he was 5–4 with a 3.39 ERA and 97 strikeouts in 61 innings. He was named to the All-Big Ten second team.
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