MILWAUKEE -- Brandon Woodruff is a multi-time winner of the Brewers’ Good Guy Award for his cooperation with the media, so it was a sign of how badly the right-hander was hurting that he wasn’t ready to publicly discuss the latest setback in his comeback from shoulder surgery when the club returned home on Friday.

Jim Henderson, the former Milwaukee closer who is now one of the club’s pitching coaches, empathized with Woodruff, needing more time to process. Henderson underwent two major shoulder injuries in his career. They were hard enough without the last-minute setbacks Woodruff has endured -- an ankle injury going into what was supposed to be his final rehab start in the middle of last month, then a 108.2 mph comebacker off his pitching elbow during what was (again) supposed to be

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