Brew Crew Ball’s MVBrewers series continues this week. This time, we’re shining the spotlight on Brandon Woodruff, who we’ve selected as our third-most-valuable Brewer in 2022.
Woodruff’s season got off to an inauspicious start. Through his first nine outings, he struggled to a 4.74 ERA. While a 3.80 FIP over that stretch pointed toward some rotten luck, Woodruff’s once-stellar quality of contact metrics also took a step back, and his home run rate inflated to 1.44 per nine innings.
The big right-hander left his ninth start of the season with a minor ankle injury, and he developed symptoms of Raynaud’s syndrome in his pitching hand as he was closing in on a return.