{"id":291848,"date":"2025-11-18T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:41:08","slug":"brandon-woodruff-brewers-reportedly-agree-to-22m-contract-for-2026-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/291848\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Woodruff, Brewers Reportedly Agree to $22M Contract for 2026 MLB Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran right-hander Brandon Woodruff has opted to return to the Milwaukee Brewers rather than test free agency.<\/p>\n

Woodruff accepted his one-year, $22.025 million qualifying offer to stay with the Brewers for 2026, ESPN’s Jeff Passan<\/a> reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He previously declined<\/a> his side of a $20 million mutual option for 2026, taking a $10 million buyout from the Brewers instead.<\/p>\n

The Brewers then made Woodruff a qualifying offer that would have resulted in the club receiving draft pick compensation had the pitcher signed elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Originally drafted by the Brewers in 2011, Woodruff made his Milwaukee debut in 2017 and earned his first All-Star nod in 2019.<\/p>\n

Woodruff made 103 starts while recording an ERA of 2.93 from 2019 to 2023, ranking him behind only Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander and Clayton Kershaw over the stretch, per FanGraphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His 2023 season, however, was cut short by a right shoulder injury that sidelined him for the entirety of the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n

Despite his injury status, the Brewers signed Woodruff to a two-year deal<\/a> ahead of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n

Woodruff then battled back from his subsequent surgery and multiple setbacks<\/a> during the rehabilitation process to make his 2025 season debut on July 6.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old went on to record a 3.20 ERA through 12 starts and 64.2 innings pitched to help the Brewers clinch the NL Central and a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

The Brewers will hope bringing Woodruff back on his qualifying offer will allow the team to get a fully healthy age-33 season from one of the most reliable starters in franchise history. <\/p>\n

Woodruff could meanwhile take one step closer to finishing out his MLB career with his longtime team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran right-hander Brandon Woodruff has opted to return to the Milwaukee Brewers rather than test free agency. Woodruff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-291848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}