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Brandon Woodruff

Milwaukee Brewers National League Central

Age: 33
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 241 lb
Number: #53

Born: February 10, 1993 in Tupelo, MS, United States
MLB debut: August 4, 2017
Drafted: 2011, round 5
College: Mississippi State
High school: Wheeler
Salary, 2026: $22M

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dbWAR: 19.8
IP: 45.1
ERA: 2.98
FIP: 3.19
K/9: 9.3
FIP−: 76

Brandon Woodruff is a starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. In 2026 he struck out 47 batters over 45.1 innings across 9 appearances, 9 of them starts, going 2-2. His ERA of 2.98 was 28.8% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 6th of 15 on his team, and 89th of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.19 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 23.6% of swings (12.1% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 27.0%. His 1.1 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2026 regular season.

FIP3.19

K/99.3

WHIP0.84

WAR1.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	MIL	9	9	45.1	2	2	0	28	15	47	10	2.98	3.19	0.84	9.3	2.0	71	76	1.1
2025	MIL	12	12	64.2	7	2	0	45	23	83	14	3.20	3.17	0.91	11.6	1.9	77	76	1.5
2023	MIL	11	11	67.0	5	1	0	40	17	74	15	2.28	3.60	0.82	9.9	2.0	53	83	1.4
2022	MIL	27	27	153.1	13	4	0	122	52	190	42	3.05	3.08	1.07	11.2	2.5	77	78	3.4
2021	MIL	30	30	179.1	9	10	0	130	51	211	43	2.56	2.96	0.96	10.6	2.2	60	69	5.0
2020	MIL	13	13	73.2	3	5	0	55	25	91	18	3.05	3.20	0.99	11.1	2.2	69	72	2.0
2019	MIL	22	22	121.2	11	3	0	109	49	143	30	3.62	3.01	1.14	10.6	2.2	80	67	3.5
2018	MIL	19	4	42.1	3	0	1	36	17	47	14	3.61	3.30	1.18	10.0	3.0	87	80	0.7
2017	MIL	8	8	43.0	2	3	0	43	23	32	14	4.81	4.37	1.33	6.7	2.9	110	100	0.5

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	MIL	28	58	6	0	2	3	28	.115	.164	.115	.000	.250	5.2%	48.3%	.135	-8.9	-26	0.0
2019	MIL	23	49	12	0	4	1	20	.267	.283	.356	.089	.480	2.0%	40.8%	.273	-2.1	67	0.5
2018	MIL	6	10	2	1	1	1	1	.250	.333	.625	.375	.167	10.0%	10.0%	.403	+0.7	158	0.2
2017	MIL	6	12	2	0	0	1	2	.200	.273	.200	.000	.250	8.3%	16.7%	.224	-1.0	30	0.1

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Brandon Woodruff's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2026 Post	MIL	World Series · through Oct 26	1	0	1.0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	9.00	2.00	9.0
2021 Post	MIL	NLDS	2	1	7.1	0	1	6	3	1	1	8	3.68	0.95	9.8
2020 Post	MIL	Wild Card	1	1	4.2	0	1	5	3	0	0	9	5.79	1.07	17.4
2019 Post	MIL	Wild Card	1	1	4.0	0	0	2	1	1	0	3	2.25	0.50	6.8
2018 Post	MIL	Postseason total	4	1	12.1	1	1	7	3	0	3	20	2.19	0.81	14.6
		NLDS	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0.00	0.33	9.0
		NLCS	3	0	9.1	1	1	7	3	0	2	17	2.89	0.96	16.4
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	9	4	29.1	1	3	22	11	2	4	41	3.38	0.89	12.6

Postseason batting

Postseason Brandon Woodruff's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	MIL	NLDS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2019 Post	MIL	Wild Card	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
2018 Post	MIL	NLCS	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	.500	.667	2.000	2.667
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	4	5	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	.333	.500	1.333	1.833

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	91	82	12	3	8	25	.146	.220	.293	.225	27.5%
vs RHB	83	79	16	2	2	22	.203	.229	.316	.239	26.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Brandon Woodruff throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	44.0%	281	91.8	2,336	56.6%	25.8%	71	.113	.449
Changeup	21.3%	136	82.4	1,774	48.5%	38.2%	30	.133	.300
Sinker	19.3%	123	92.4	2,282	48.8%	10.9%	36	.333	.870
Cutter	10.2%	65	88.5	2,377	32.3%	7.4%	18	.222	.667
Curveball	4.4%	28	76.2	2,563	53.6%	22.2%	6	—	—

Brandon Woodruff's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2026 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Yoshinobu YamamotoLAD

ERA: 2.53
FIP: 3.34
SO: 182
WAR: 4.1

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Drew RasmussenTB

ERA: 2.67
FIP: 2.82
SO: 174
WAR: 4.8

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Logan HendersonMIL

ERA: 2.47
FIP: 3.33
SO: 110
WAR: 2.2

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Reid DetmersLAA

ERA: 3.36
FIP: 3.02
SO: 211
WAR: 4.6

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.