MILWAUKEE – Brandon Woodruff looked around the room in the wake of the Brewers’ season-ending, 5-1 loss to the Dodgers in Game 4 of the NLCS and saw a team positioned to move forward, not backward, after it gets past the sting of being swept.

“We weren’t supposed to be in this position,” Woodruff said. “After the start that we had and the way we rallied together throughout the year, and the runs that we had and the fun that we had, we saw the guys in this room grow into really good big league players. That’s the coolest thing to see

“To be able to get ourselves in this position was pretty crazy. It was a fun group.”

There’s a good chance that the group next year will look a lot like the group this year, but Woodruff has no way to know whether he’ll be part of it. The team’s longest-te

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