{"id":935277,"date":"2026-10-16T14:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935277\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:28:09","slug":"brandon-woodruff-hopes-to-pitch-in-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935277\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Woodruff Hopes To Pitch In World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers are going to the World Series for the first time since 1982 after coming back from a four-run deficit to finish off their sweep of the Dodgers. Milwaukee\u2019s pitching staff handled the Dodgers quite capably in the NLCS, holding them to just 11 runs combined over four games. Right-hander Brandon Woodruff<\/a>, who hasn\u2019t pitched since July 4th due to shoulder inflammation, hopes to join the party in time for the World Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be hard to keep me off that roster,\u201d Woodruff told Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a> after the Brewers\u2019 win. \u201cWe\u2019ll have this conversation especially in the next few days. \u2026 I need to get to the point where I can face some live hitters, and now that we\u2019ve got some time here, it\u2019s good. I\u2019ve always believed in myself. It doesn\u2019t matter if I\u2019m throwing one pitch in two months or ten rehab outings. I don\u2019t care. I feel like I can go out there and do it. I hope I get that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woodruff was healthy to start this season and made six starts through the end of April before going on the injured list for the inflamed shoulder. He returned on June 22nd and made three more starts. That lowered his season ERA to 2.98 in 45 1\/3 innings, aided by an unsustainably low .207 opponents\u2019 average on balls in play. The shoulder inflammation continued to be an issue, however, as Woodruff went back on the IL on July 5th. He managed to avoid<\/a> another shoulder surgery (having previously undergone one in October 2023), though the righty didn\u2019t appear in any rehab games before the minor league season ended and was only throwing off of flat ground<\/a> as of two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Given that progression, Woodruff obviously wouldn\u2019t be looking to start any World Series games. The Brewers wouldn\u2019t need him to anyway. Jacob Misiorowski<\/a>, Logan Henderson<\/a>, and Robert Gasser<\/a> allowed five runs combined over 14 1\/3 innings in Games 1 through 3. Only three of those runs were earned. Milwaukee turned to Shane Drohan<\/a> as the opener yesterday, and while he and Dustin May<\/a> allowed four earned runs total, they got five shutout innings from JoJo Romero<\/a> and Aaron Ashby<\/a> to close things out. Ashby was excellent all series, firing 6 2\/3 scoreless frames.<\/p>\n

If he makes it back, Woodruff would be used as a reliever in low-leverage spots. Still, it would be a nice feel-good story for the longest-tenured Brewer to overcome his injuries and appear in the World Series. Woodruff\u2019s last playoff appearance came in the 2021 Division Series. He did not appear in the Wild Card Series in 2023 or 2024 thanks to the shoulder surgery. He ended 2025 on the IL for a right lat strain and missed the Brewers\u2019 run to the NLCS, where they were swept by the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Woodruff is an impending free agent. He played this season on a $22.025MM salary after accepting the Brewers\u2019 qualifying offer, but he won\u2019t come close to that after another injury-shortened year. He pitched 153 1\/3 innings in 2022 but has thrown just 177 innings since the start of 2023. A one-year deal at a lower AAV seems the most likely outcome. Woodruff should get plenty of interest because of his track record when healthy, and he might have the highest upside in the \u201crebound hopefuls\u201d tier of the free agent class of starters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers are going to the World Series for the first time since 1982 after coming back from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[42607,49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-935277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935277","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=935277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}