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Brandon Woodruff

32-Year-Old PitcherSP
Milwaukee Brewers
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Injury Lat
Est. Return 2/1/2026
2025 Stats
W-L
7-2
ERA
3.20
WHIP
0.91
K
83
SV
0
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2026 Fantasy Outlook
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
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Bats R
Throws R
40 Man Yes
Height 6'4"
Weight 243
DOB 2/10/1993
Born Tupelo, MS
College Mississippi State
Drafted 11th Rd 2014 MIL
Signed a one-year, $22.025 million contract with the Brewers in November of 2025.
Sticking in Milwaukee
PMilwaukee Brewers
Lat
November 18, 2025
Woodruff (lat) accepted the one-year, $22.025 million qualifying offer from the Brewers on Tuesday, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports.
Analysis
The veteran right-hander declined his $20 million mutual option for 2026 earlier in November, but he'll return to Milwaukee for a ninth season on the qualifying offer. Woodruff spent the first three months of the 2025 campaign rehabbing from shoulder, ankle and elbow issues, but he was effective when available with a 3.20 ERA, 0.91 WHIP and 83:14 K:BB across 64.2 innings. He went down with a lat strain in September and missed the final weeks of the season but is expected to be healthy for spring training.
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Pitching Appearances Breakdown
Average Pitch Count
80
Last 10 Games
81
Last 5 Games
87
How many pitches does Brandon Woodruff generally throw?
 
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% Games Reaching Innings Threshold
% Games By Number of Innings Pitched
Left/Right Pitching Splits
Since 2023
 
 
-1%
BAA vs RHP
2025
 
 
-8%
BAA vs LHP
2024
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2023
 
 
-12%
BAA vs RHP
BAA Batters K BB H 2B 3B HR
Since 2023vs Left .181 268 80 17 45 9 0 8
Since 2023vs Right .179 242 77 12 40 6 0 10
2025vs Left .181 135 39 6 23 5 0 3
2025vs Right .196 122 44 8 22 2 0 6
2024vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023vs Left .182 133 41 11 22 4 0 5
2023vs Right .161 120 33 4 18 4 0 4
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Home/Away Pitching Splits
Since 2023
 
 
-28%
ERA at Home
2025
 
 
-10%
ERA on Road
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2023
 
 
-65%
ERA at Home
ERA WHIP IP W L SV K/9 BB/9 HR/9
Since 2023Home 2.27 0.90 63.1 6 1 0 11.7 2.0 1.6
Since 2023Away 3.16 0.83 68.1 6 2 0 9.9 2.0 0.9
2025Home 3.38 0.97 32.0 3 0 0 12.7 2.3 2.0
2025Away 3.03 0.86 32.2 4 2 0 10.5 1.7 0.6
2024Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2024Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2023Home 1.15 0.83 31.1 3 1 0 10.6 1.7 1.1
2023Away 3.28 0.81 35.2 2 0 0 9.3 2.3 1.3
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Stat Review
How does Brandon Woodruff compare to other starting pitchers?
This section compares his stats with all starting pitcher seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 120 innings)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity, Barrels/BBE %, Balls Hit 95+ MPH %, and Spin Rate are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 120 IP). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • K/BB
    Strikeout to walk ratio.
  • K/9
    Average strikeouts per nine innings.
  • BB/9
    Average walks per nine innings.
  • HR/9
    Average home runs allowed per nine innings.
  • Fastball
    Average fastball velocity.
  • ERA
    Earned run average. The average earned runs allowed per nine innings.
  • WHIP
    Walks plus hits per inning pitched.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many balls in play against a pitcher go for hits.
  • GB/FB
    Groundball to flyball ratio. The higher the number, the more likely a pitcher is to induce groundballs.
  • Left On Base
    The percentage of base runners that a pitcher strands on base over the course of a season.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Barrels/BBE
    The percentage of batted ball events resulting in a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Spin Rate
    Spin Rate is the rate of spin on a baseball after it is released. It is measured in revolutions per minute (rpm).
  • Balls Hit 95+ MPH
    The percentage of batted balls hit that met or exceeded the 95 MPH threshold.
  • Swinging Strike
    The percentage of pitches that result in a swing and a miss.
K/BB
5.93
 
K/9
11.6
 
BB/9
1.9
 
HR/9
1.3
 
Fastball
93.0 mph
 
ERA
3.20
 
WHIP
0.91
 
BABIP
.266
 
GB/FB
0.69
 
Left On Base
71.1%
 
Exit Velocity
80.0 mph
 
Barrels/BBE
3.6%
 
Spin Rate
2259 rpm
 
Balls Hit 95+ MPH
19.1%
 
Swinging Strike
13.0%
 
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
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The right-hander was released by the Brewers in November of 2023 but eventually re-signed on a two-year deal as he sat out 2024 while recovering from shoulder surgery. Woodruff spent most of 2023 on the shelf but was electric when available with a 2.28 ERA and 0.82 WHIP in 11 starts. That production wasn't exactly out of the ordinary, as he had a 3.02 ERA, 1.04 WHIP and 10.8 K/9 in 92 starts over the previous four seasons. The question now is whether he can recapture that form after missing a full season, and there's also the possibility he faces some workload limitations given his limited innings over the past two years. There is tons of upside given his track record and Milwaukee's penchant for getting the most out of its pitchers, but there's still some risk with Woodruff coming off the injury.
Woodruff's shoulder was the story of his 2023 season and he will likely miss the entirety of 2024 after undergoing surgery to repair the anterior capsule in his right shoulder in October. He was placed on the injured list after just two starts last season and didn't pitch again until August. While there was some hope initially that the two-time All-Star could return by the end of June, the Brewers slowed down his rehab, as he wasn't recovering from his bullpens as well as the team hoped. That news proved ominous, but the Brewers still decided to bring Woodruff back on a two-year deal, with an eye toward 2025.
Woodruff put up a second consecutive season of ace level performance, but left us wanting more as fantasy managers. Woodruff had the 8th-best K-BB%, 4th best strikeout rate and 20th best WHIP amongst starting pitchers with at least 150 innings of work in 2022. Yet, he finished outside the top 20 in both ERA and wins and missed time in the summer after being diagnosed with Raynaud's syndrome, a circulatory condition which causes numbness in the extremities due to reduced blood flow. That particular issue caused him to have trouble with his grip on his breaking pitches which led to a near 50-point jump in the league-wide batting average against his spinners. It is also worth noting that Woodruff has just once pitched more than 160 innings in a season or made 30 starts over the past three full seasons. The metrics and StatCast data scream ace, but the outcomes leave us wanting a bit more.
The kids will tell us IYKYK, and if you had Woodruff on your team last season, you know where this is going. Milwaukee won 16 of the 30 games Woodruff started, yet Woodruff won just nine games because he had the absolute worst run support in the National League with just 2.5 runs scored when he was pitching. Two-thirds of his starts were quality starts, yet fewer than one-third of them became wins. That is just rotten luck for a pitcher who went into the Milwaukee pitching laboratory and has turned himself into one of the better pitchers in the game. He now has three consecutive seasons of impressive three-category production with the wins being at the mercy of the offense. Hopefully the Brew Crew will supply Woodruff with more run support to turn him into the ace pitcher he is shaping out to be. If they do, perhaps the Cy Young Award can even stay in Milwaukee, because Woodruff has all the tools to make it happen.
If not for an injury that cost him extended time in 2019 Woodruff could have found himself in the mix for the Cy Young award. Well, he was even better in 2020, increasing his strikeout rate and allowing fewer than one baserunner per inning. He still leaned heavily on his upper-90s fastball, but he threw a lower percentage of sliders for the third year in a row and threw more curveballs and changeups than ever. That pitch mix is tough for hitters to deal with, particularly when Woodruff isn't walking them. Woodruff keeps getting better and better, and he is in his prime heading into his age-28 season. Woodruff's lone issue last season was length, as he averaged fewer than six innings per start. If he can be a little more efficient with his pitch counts in 2021, he figures to be just as good -- or better -- than he was a season ago.
Marlon Brando "coulda been a contender," and Woodruff could have, too. Not in a boxing match, of course, but for last year's NL Cy Young Award. Had Woodruff not missed two months with an oblique injury he had a real shot to finish top-10 in the NL in all of W, K and WAR in his first season as a full-time starter. Woodruff returned to action in September and picked up right where he left off. There's reason to believe he could be even better, as he made a notable improvement in the K:BB department last season and finished with a 3.01 FIP. Woodruff has found success as a starter thanks to a pitch mix that features a four-seamer and sinker that both sit in the mid-90s, a hard slider and a changeup that fools hitters looking for the power pitches. Woodruff has the offerings, numbers and underlying stats all in his favor and has all the makings of a No. 1 starter.
After a mostly nondescript regular season, Woodruff cranked things up in September and into the playoffs. He worked in relief, which allowed him to maximize his pitches and show dominant stuff. An 11th-round pick in 2014, he posted a healthy 26.7 K% in 42.1 regular-season innings. He paired that with average control (8.0 BB%) and an above-average 53.1% groundball rate. The combination of strikeouts and groundballs is quite appealing, although it remains to be seen if the improved stuff will survive the transition back to the rotation. Woodruff was not all that effective as a starter in 2017, posting just a 9.8 K-BB% over eight starts. While the Brewers may go into the season with Woodruff technically in the rotation, they have embraced the idea of blurring the lines between starters and relievers, so he likely wouldn't log many six- or seven-inning outings. That usage should greatly benefit his ratios at the expensive of wins and strikeouts.
Woodruff got a shot at the Triple-A level last season after being named the Brewers' minor league pitcher of the year in 2016, and while his numbers were not pretty -- most aren't in the PCL -- he was effective and consistent enough to earn his first trip to the majors. He allowed just four earned runs in four starts out of the gate, but he crumbled after that, allowing 19 earned runs over his final four big-league starts. Still, his showing was good enough overall to put him in the conversation for a back-end spot in the Brewers' rotation to begin 2018. Woodruff throws a fastball that sits in the mid-90s and also a quality slider and average changeup, and though he averaged less than a strikeout per inning in 2017, he has shown improvement in that area the last two years. Woodruff is unlikely to be much of a factor early in shallow leagues, but if he earns a rotation spot in spring training, he possesses enough upside to be selected in the late rounds for deeper formats.
Woodruff may have been just an 11th-round pick in 2014, but he hasn't let falling in the draft stop him from cruising through the lower levels of the minor leagues. After dominating High-A with Brevard County through eight starts (1.83 ERA, 10.0 K/9), the 23-year-old earned a promotion to Double-A Biloxi. He finished on absolute fire, having allowed just one run over 22 innings in his final three starts to end the season with a 3.01 ERA. Even after advancing to Double-A, Woodruff continued to strike out over a batter per inning and maintained a K/BB above 4.0. Now over a year removed from a nasty oblique injury, Woodruff is looking like he could make his way into Milwaukee's rotation sooner than expected.
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Receives qualifying offer
PFree Agent
Lat
November 6, 2025
The Brewers extended a one-year, $22.05 million qualifying offer to Woodruff (lat) on Thursday, Jeff Passan of ESPN.com reports.
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Passes on mutual option
PFree Agent
Lat
November 3, 2025
Woodruff (lat) became a free agent Monday after declining his $20 million mutual option for 2026, Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
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Expected to be ready for spring
PMilwaukee Brewers
Lat
October 20, 2025
Woodruff (lat) is expected to be 100 percent well ahead of spring training, MLB.com reports.
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Unavailable for NLCS
PMilwaukee Brewers
Lat
October 12, 2025
Woodruff (lat) said Sunday that he's yet to resume playing catch and won't be on the Brewers' roster for the NLCS against the Dodgers, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports.
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Ruled out for NLDS
PMilwaukee Brewers
Lat
October 3, 2025
Brewers manager Pat Murphy said Friday that Woodruff (lat) will not pitch during the NLDS versus the Cubs, Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
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Not playing in NLCS
PMilwaukee Brewers
October 13, 2025
Woodruff won't be part of the Brewers roster for the NLCS against the Dodgers as he's yet to recover from the lat strain he suffered in September, according to Adam McCalvy of MLB.com.
Analysis
Woodruff has yet to take part in the Brewers' postseason run, and since he's yet to start playing catch, he won't be ready to face the Dodgers. His status for an eventual World Series appearance is also unlikely given the progress he's made in his recovery. Game 1 of the World Series falls on Oct. 24, giving Woodruff just 12 days to get ramped up enough to pitch even in a relief capacity if the Brewers defeat the Dodgers.
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