page_title: Tommy Hunter (baseball)
section_title: Texas Rangers (2008–11)
hierarchical_section_title: Tommy Hunter (baseball) / Major league career / Texas Rangers (2008–11)
caption_attribution_description: English: Tommy Hunter of the Texas Rangers, chatting with a fan before the game
context_page_description: Raymond Thomas Hunter is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, and Tampa Bay Rays.
  Hunter was drafted by the Rangers in the supplemental first round of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft out of the University of Alabama. He made his major league debut in 2008. In 2010 he led the American League with a .765 win-loss percentage, as he was 13–4.
context_section_description: Hunter was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the supplemental first round of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft out of the University of Alabama, and signed for a $585,000 signing bonus. The Rangers were awarded a compensatory pick when Mark DeRosa left to go to the Chicago Cubs in free agency.
  Hunter made his major league debut on August 1, 2008, taking on the Toronto Blue Jays as the fourth-youngest player in the American League shortly after turning 22 years of age. He pitched 11 innings for the Rangers in 2008. He recorded his first MLB win on July 3, 2009, against the Tampa Bay Rays. He recorded his first Major League complete game on September 13 against the Seattle Mariners. On October 3 Hunter gave up Ken Griffey Jr's 630th career home run.
  In 2009, he was 9-6 with a 4.10 ERA, with 64 strikeouts in 112 innings. He held right-handed hitters to a .228 batting average (7th-lowest in the AL), and opponents at home to a .226 average (the lowest single-season figure ever by a pitcher with at least 10 starts at Rangers Ballpark).
  Hunter made his 2010 season debut on June 5, pitching a complete game win against the Tampa Bay Rays. He was 13–4 for the season (an American League-leading .765 win-loss percentage), with a 3.73 ERA as he struck out 68 batters in 128 innings.  His 13 wins tied Derek Holland for the most wins by any pitcher in the Rangers organization in 2010, in either the major or minor leagues. Hunter started Game 4 of the ALCS vs the Yankees.
  In 2011 with the Rangers he was 1-1 with a 2.93 ERA, and struck out 10 batters in 15.1 innings.
caption: Hunter with the Texas Rangers
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