Los Angeles Dodgers southpaw Alex Wood is coming off a career season in 2017 that resulted in his first All-Star Game selection and a top-10 finish in National League Cy Young voting.
Wood posted a 16-3 record on the year, aided by a personal-best 2.72 ERA, 3.32 FIP and 1.06 WHIP across 152.1 innings (25 starts). But his production waned by the end of the year as a result of fatigue, and because of that, Wood struggled to go deep into outings.
In an effort to alter his mechanics, Wood recently revealed that he will pitch exclusively out of the stretch.