Brandon Woodruff did not have surgery, to start throwing program.

[bm1090]

Yeah at this point I’d be surprised if he’s not on the roster 

[adambr2]

3 hours ago, RobDeer 45 said:

Are we worried about experimenting in the playoffs?  I think May has done well.  

[brewerfan82]

I'm putting Woody on the roster just to get the pinch hit homerun when we need it.

[owbc]

I refuse to believe we're gonna let Woodruff throw 89 mph fastballs in the World Series. We can't waste a roster spot like that. If it turns out that he's throwing 93 then maybe, but otherwise it's a nice story and he can sit on the taxi squad in case there is an injury. 

[Underachiever]

14 minutes ago, brewerfan82 said:

I'm putting Woody on the roster just to get the pinch hit homerun when we need it.

Bench power bats: Woodruff from the right side, Hamilton from the left. Formidable 

[Dragonbait]

The practical side of me says no.

 

The emotional side wants it to happen.

[bm1090]

37 minutes ago, owbc said:

I refuse to believe we're gonna let Woodruff throw 89 mph fastballs in the World Series. We can't waste a roster spot like that. If it turns out that he's throwing 93 then maybe, but otherwise it's a nice story and he can sit on the taxi squad in case there is an injury. 

We have two guys on the roster that haven't faced a batter and another who threw one inning. Zero harm throwing Woody into the Harrison role. Plus he's been effective the last two years throwing 90.

 

[Ignitor 4ever]

1 hour ago, Underachiever said:

Bench power bats: Woodruff from the right side, Hamilton from the left. Formidable 

Woodruff from the right? You may want to re-watch the homerun he hit off of Kershaw.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Brewers up 3-0 in the series and 8-0 in Game 4. It's the 9th inning. Woodruff comes in and immediately gives up to singles and a home run. Murphy comes out to the mound. Big Woo tells him to hobble his butt back to the dugout, then proceeds to K three guys in a row. Brewers win the World Series. Woodruff retires. 

Let's goooooo!

[StearnsFTW]

What a ridiculous notion.

[adambr2]

2 hours ago, StearnsFTW said:

What a ridiculous notion.

A ridiculous notion that the pitcher who has basically been the pitching version of Yelich in Milwaukee the last 10 years, put up a 2.98 ERA before being injured this year and a 3.20 ERA last year, deserves a single spot over either two guys we didn’t trust to throw a pitch in either the NLDS or NLCS, or a guy who sucked in the regular season after we acquired him, sucked in the NLDS and sucked in the NLCS?

Nah, not ridiculous at all. 

I could understand calling it ridiculous if this were clearly some kind of last season of his career Jordan Zimmerman charity case, but you can easily rationalize trusting Woodruff to throw an inning or two over at least one of May, Harrison or Patrick.

And if something goes wrong and he’s clearly still injured, you can pull him immediately and replace him on the roster the next day.

[torts]

5 hours ago, adambr2 said:

A ridiculous notion that the pitcher who has basically been the pitching version of Yelich in Milwaukee the last 10 years, put up a 2.98 ERA before being injured this year and a 3.20 ERA last year, deserves a single spot over either two guys we didn’t trust to throw a pitch in either the NLDS or NLCS, or a guy who sucked in the regular season after we acquired him, sucked in the NLDS and sucked in the NLCS?

Nah, not ridiculous at all. 

I could understand calling it ridiculous if this were clearly some kind of last season of his career Jordan Zimmerman charity case, but you can easily rationalize trusting Woodruff to throw an inning or two over at least one of May, Harrison or Patrick.

And if something goes wrong and he’s clearly still injured, you can pull him immediately and replace him on the roster the next day.

[MrTPlush]

Just to note:

An injury replacement in the postseason has to be approved by the commissioners office and has to be a new non chronic injury. You have to prove they weren’t injured prior and have documentation of the injury that happened in the postseason.
 

If we put a questionably injured Woody on the roster and he ends up injured, we are not assured the right to replace him.

I don’t really know the history of injury replacements, especially in the WS as the biggest ‘loss’ is you can’t have them for the rest of the postseason (not relevant at that point anymore).