When the Dodgers acquired Alex Wood almost two years ago, no one expected he’d turn out to be this good. The potential was there, but there were always questions about his …
Read More »Alex Wood’s great start creates stress for front office, rotation crunch for Dodgers
Alex Wood is better than Clayton Kershaw. Well, at least he has been this season. In 20 fewer innings, Wood has been worth 1.6 fWAR, compared to Kershaw’s 1.4. In …
Read More »Alex Wood’s velocity spike seems real, which could set stage for big 2017
Alex Wood has always seemed to be a bit underappreciated and underrated considering what he’s shown in his career. Wood has identical 3.33 marks for ERA and FIP over his …
Read More »Dodgers avoid arbitration with Yasmani Grandal, others; trade Micah Johnson to Braves
The Dodgers avoided arbitration with all their eligible players on Friday, marking the 10th consecutive year there will not be any hearings to determine a player’s salary. Source: Dodgers avoid arbitration …
Read More »2016 Dodgers in Review: LHP Alex Wood
IP K% BB% HR/9 ERA FIP xFIP WAR MLB 60.1 25.9 7.8 0.75 3.73 3.18 3.29 0.9 What happened in 2016: An elbow injury displaced him from the starting rotation …
Read More »Dodgers can weather Alex Wood’s injury, but not much more
Dodgers starter Alex Wood is coming off a month in May in which he seemed to realize his potential, going 28.1 innings with a 3.18 ERA and a 2.91 FIP. …
Read More »Alex Wood making up for lack of strikeouts with grounders, soft contact
Alex Wood makes his return to Atlanta tonight for the first time since the Dodgers traded for him last July. While his 2015 with the Dodgers wasn’t memorable (mostly because …
Read More »Corey Seager out 1-2 weeks, Alex Wood scratched with forearm tightness
If there’s a more irreplaceable player on the Dodgers’ roster than Corey Seager, I’m not sure who that might be. So when he left Friday’s game with a sore left …
Read More »Hyun-Jin Ryu to miss start of season, but you already knew that
Dave Roberts confirmed what pretty much everyone already knew: Hyun-Jin Ryu isn’t going to be ready for the start of the season. Ryu was already a couple weeks behind other …
Read More »Alex Wood Was Playing Hurt Last Season
Normally this early in Spring Training, most news stories aren’t actually all that important. Somebody’s in the best shape of his life, somebody else is fat, and Josh Collmenter is …
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