How about these 2025 Brewers?

An MLB-best 79-45, the Brewers have taken the baseball world by storm, reeling off three separate win streaks of at least eight games and most recently winning a franchise-record 14 straight games to begin the month of August.

As MLB’s own Mike Petriello wrote about, there’s no shortage of castoffs and unknowns who have helped baseball’s top team. But there’s one familiar face who has returned in 2025 to play a pivotal role in Milwaukee’s epic run.

Brandon Woodruff was one of baseball’s best pitchers from 2019-23, when he had a 2.93 ERA and 3.10 FIP across 103 starts, which were top-10 figures among any pitcher with at least 300 innings. Woodruff, however, only threw 67 innings in 2023 before succumbing to October 2023 shoulder surgery to repair his an

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