Alex Wood (baseball)
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Wood with the Mississippi Braves
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| Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 57 | |||
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Born: January 12, 1991 Charlotte, North Carolina |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 30, 2013, for the Atlanta Braves | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 27–30 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.35 | ||
| Strikeouts | 452 | ||
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Robert Alexander "Alex" Wood (born January 12, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Before playing professional baseball, Wood played for his high school team at Ardrey Kell High School and college baseball for the Georgia Bulldogs. He made his MLB debut during the 2013 season for the Atlanta Braves.
Wood attended Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Playing for the school's baseball team, he was named the North Carolina Class 4A player of the year in 2009.
He enrolled at the University of Georgia, where he played college baseball for the Georgia Bulldogs baseball team. Wood was redshirted during his first season at Georgia because he had required Tommy John surgery after his senior season of high school baseball. At Georgia, Wood had a 13-10 win-loss record and a 3.57 ERA in 32 games pitched. He struck out 180 batters and walked 47 in 204 1⁄3 innings.
The Atlanta Braves selected Wood in the second round of the 2012 MLB Draft. He played for the Rome Braves of the Class A South Atlantic League in 2012, where he pitched in 13 games, going 4-3 with a 2.22 earned run average (ERA) and 52 strikeouts. He began the 2013 season with the Mississippi Braves of the Class AA Southern League.
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