Reds reliever Blake Wood was a mechanical engineering major at Georgia Tech. You don’t even think about majoring in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech if you don’t enjoy looking into numbers and finding out the story they tell.
Wood may not have gone into that field, but in baseball, he did find a profession that has as many numbers as you could hope to find. That’s why he delves into the numbers as much as possible, truth can lie in numbers, but so can lies.
Right now, Wood is 0-2 with a 4.63 ERA. Last year he was one of the team’s most reliable relievers, going 6-5 with a 3.