Brandon Woodruff

Woodruff missed the entire 2024 season following a capsule repair surgery on his right shoulder. He had been expected to make his 2025 season debut early on in the year, but the righty experienced multiple setbacks on his rehab assignment in suffering ankle and elbow injuries, delaying his first outing with the Brewers until early July. Expectations were reined in at that point, but Woodruff exceeded them with a 3.20 ERA, 0.91 WHIP and 83:14 K:BB over 64.2 frames covering 12 starts. Unfortunately, his season ended early with a lat strain, though it's unrelated to the shoulder surgery and he's expected to be healthy heading into 2026. Woodruff's repertoire is unusual in that he doesn't really throw a breaking ball (his curveball and slider combined to make up less than five percent of his usage), and the velocity on both his four-seamer and sinker were well down in his first year back from shoulder surgery. The 33-year-old showed last season that he can still make it work with diminished velocity, but he'll be a high-risk, high-reward fantasy proposition in 2026. Read Past Outlooks