Kerry Wood ---> retired

[daddies3angels]

CSN Chicago‏@CSNChicago

Kerry Wood is stretching on the field with his son #crosstown #bpcup

Thats cool

 

[daddies3angels]

Patrick Mooney‏@CSNMooney

Dempster on Wood: "It's really been an honor to play with him."

So he talked to team it sounds like

 

[MRubio52]

Kerry Wood

One of the most dominating pitching performances in MLB history

Probably the most dominating pitching performances in MLB history.

 

[Rice Cube]

Kerry Wood Calls It A Career | FanGraphs Baseball

Look at all those racists in the crowd. (embedded video)

 

[FirstTimer]

Against an Astros lineup that wasn't exactly chopped liver.

Biggio, Bagwell, Alou, Bell, Everett,

That Astros team won 102 games and lead the NL in runs per game(4th in the entire MLB), was 2nd in batting average, 3rd in OPS, and top 5 across the board in most offensive categories.

 

[brett05]

11 k on ball or swinging ball. That ump must have had to go pretty bad

 

[daddies3angels]

Connor McKnight‏@McKnight670

#Cubs Manager Dale Sveum won't talk about Kerry Wood til Kerry Wood talks about Kerry Wood. Wood is available out of the pen. #KerryWood

I would think cubs want to use him today to get this over with and move on

 

[FirstTimer]

11 k on ball or swinging ball. That ump must have had to go pretty bad

.............Wut?


As usual another awful brett sports related post.

 

[daddies3angels]

11 k on ball or swinging ball. That ump must have had to go pretty bad

He had big zone. Did for both teams though. People prolly dont remember that HOU SP had 11K's also

 

[FirstTimer]

Per Fangraphs

Based on Game Score, Kerry Wood‘s 20 strikeout game against the Astros on May 6th, 1998 is the best-pitched nine-inning game in Major League history. The 105 score is better than every perfect game and four points better than any other game period. He was 41 days shy of his 21st birthday and it was his fifth big league start.

Wood, now 34, is set to announce his retirement from baseball today according to ESPN Chicago’s Bruce Levine. Among pitchers who have thrown at least 1,000 career innings, his career 10.31 K/9 is the best in history by a right-handed pitcher and the second best all-time behind Randy Johnson (10.61 K/9). His 20 strikeouts against Houston remains the National League single-game record, and five days later he struck out 13 Diamondbacks to set the all-time record for strikeouts in consecutive starts (33).

In many ways, Wood is the embodiment of everything that can happen with young pitchers. He dominated, he walked a ton of guys, he got hurt, he dominated again, got hurt again, shifted to the bullpen, and then got hurt yet again. Unlike Mark Prior, Wood was hurt long before Dusty Baker came to Chicago’s north side and starting running arms through the shredder. He had Tommy John surgery in 1999 and shoulder inflammation in 2001, but still managed to rack up 17.2 WAR before his career really flew off the rails in 2004.

The laundry list of injuries includes labrum and rotator cuff surgery, five separate DL stints for non-surgical shoulder problems, knee surgery, back problems, blisters, an oblique strain, and triceps issues in addition to the elbow reconstruction. Wood spent 16 different stints on the disabled list during his 14-year career, including a bout with shoulder inflammation this season that appears to have contributed to his decision to retire. Frankly, it’s surprising he didn’t call it a career sooner given all the physical problems.

In an age when the term “electric stuff” gets slapped on every kid with a mid-90s fastball, none have lived up to the moniker like Wood. His fastball would legitimately sit in the mid-to-upper-90s early in his career and that curveball … it was just a thing of beauty. Batters swung and missed at his offerings a whopping 12.3% of the time since the data starting being recorded in 2002, a testament to how nasty he was. Wood topped the 200 IP plateau only twice (2002 and 2003) but he had four different seasons of 3+ WAR, including another at 2.7. He started, he closed, and he setup between injuries for the Cubs, the Indians, the Yankees, and then the Cubs again.

It’s almost impossible to find someone who wasn’t a fan of Kerry Wood. He was never an underdog in the sense that he lacked talent — he had talent to spare, if anything — but he was an underdog in that his body did everything it could to sabotage his greatness. Wood was one of the most exciting pitchers of his generation, fitting the Texas fireballer stereotype to a tee. Paul Sullivan of The Chicago Tribune says he’ll announce the decision following this afternoon’s game, and chances are Wood will make his final appearance as a player in relief and walk off the field to a standing ovation. After all he’s been through, Kerry will leave the game of baseball on his own terms and that’s awesome.

 

[daddies3angels]

Gordon Wittenmyer‏@GDubCub

Sveum says prepared for this "for peobably the last 24 hours."

Wonder what made him decide.

 

[brett05]

He had big zone. Did for both teams though. People prolly dont remember that HOU SP had 11K's also

Nice call. I sure did not. See ump really did have to go bad

 

[FirstTimer]

He had big zone. Did for both teams though. People prolly dont remember that HOU SP had 11K's also

Or..Shane Reynolds was pretty fucking good in his own right that year.

Had a career best season, struck out over 200 batters.

Nothing about that video screams "bad zone" or even "large zone".

This isn't Livan Hernandez against the Braves.

 

[tbo41fan]

wow.

hope he gets a standing O today...one of my favorite cubs ever...

 

[FirstTimer]

Nice call. I sure did not. See ump really did have to go bad

Pretty stupid analysis there considering Wood struck out 16 batters later that season, struck out 13 guys 3 times that year as well(including his next start). Chalking up 4 more missed bats to a wide strike zone..which there wasn't is just shitty analysis...especially considering that 11k performance by Reynolds wasn't even his best performance that year.

 

[brett05]

Nothing about that video screams "bad zone" or even "large zone".

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Try and watch the video. 11 strikeouts were balls called strikes or swings at pitches outside the zone. Even with video evidence you are wrong. I shouldn't be surprised.

 

[Rice Cube]

You take what the umpire gives ya.

 

[MRubio52]

Try and watch the video. 11 strikeouts were balls called strikes or swings at pitches outside the zone. Even with video evidence you are wrong. I shouldn't be surprised.

Induces swings and misses at pitches out of the zone is a skill. It's not due to an ump.

 

[FirstTimer]

Try and watch the video

I posted the video you goof.

11 strikeouts were balls called strikes

No they weren't.

swings at pitches outside the zone

And that's the umps fault? This may be breaking news to you..but Kerry Wood had pretty nasty stuff. I'm sure though that an Astros batter swinging at a slurve at his neck was because the ump had a "large strike zone".

LOL at you trying to rip an Astros offense that ended up as one of the best in the entire majors that season.

More shit postings from you.

 

[daddies3angels]

peggy kusinski‏@peggykusinski

#Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood with son...expected to announce his retirement after 13 yrs Twitter / peggy kusinski: #Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood w ...

Could be one of last pics of Woody before a MLB game