Email a copy of 'Non-Tender Candidate: Travis Wood' to a friend
Loading ...
By charliewilmoth | at
Email a copy of 'Non-Tender Candidate: Travis Wood' to a friend
MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com
hide arrows scroll to top
FrankRoo
Watching him pitch over the course of this year his cutter just wasn’t very effective, especially against right handed hitters. If the Cubs don’t sign two starters who are locks for the rotation I’d rather see them hang onto Wood and let Bosio try and work his magic. Worst case scenario you can give Wood away for salary relief or take a shot at him being able to turn into a James Russell type of reliever. That would at least salvage some value out of a lost 5-6MM year.
Priggs89
I never really thought he was that good to begin with, but with that being said, I wouldn’t mind giving him a chance on the south side assuming he could be had for pretty cheap…
ChiMike702
He’s not worth the estimated 5.5M next year. I’d let him go.
Cbronson
Honestly, he’s gone probably gets released or traded during winter meetings. I think the rotation will look like this
SP- Lester
SP- Arrieta
SP- Peavy
SP- Wada
SP- Hendriks
oh Hal
I’d say the chance that he’s released is pretty close to zero. Most teams need 7 or 8 starters in a season as well.
cubtex
no thanks on Peavy.
Derpy
This might be nitpicky, but Travis Wood is an example of a pitcher for whom you cannot use xFIP. xFIP assumes league average homerun rate, Travis Wood has significantly lower than average career homerun rates, and has maintained this for all but one of his seasons. Even this year, which was the second highest homerun rate of his career, he is very significantly below average. He gives up 20% fewer home runs than an average pitcher per flyball. And in three of his five seasons, he’s given up 30-40% fewer.
xFIP will always under value him for this reason, you cannot use xFIP with this pitcher. It only applies to pitchers with average homerun rates. I like xFIP, too. It is then econd best predictor of future performance, behind SIERA, but you can’t use it here. It’s kinda like how some people are allergic to penicillin. It might be the best treatment available, but if your patient is allergic, you just can’t use it.
Sox
Use what you want. It doesn’t change the fact that he gave up a ton of runs and had a poor season.
mattbennett_22
If the Cubs sign one pitcher, which they likely will, they could fill out two whole starting rotations of pitchers who have successfully pitched in the big leagues (to an extent) or are undoubtedly ready for the big leagues (Jokisch).
slasher016 2
He has slightly more value to an NL team as he’s a pretty good hitting pitcher (.700 OPS.)
Gator McCluskey
Guess i haven’t seen Wood pitch as much as Cubs fans, but I would take him in a Pirates rotation tomorrow. I have no doubt that Ray Searage can help him to become more effective and given the choice of him or Jeff Locke, well, it’s a no brainer at a bargain price.
Ralph Esposito 2
Why would the Sox be interested unless he came out of the bullpen. He’s not a better pitcher than our fourth starting lefthander. Can he be a loogy?
alexamato
There is 1% chance he gets non-tendered
BenRoethig
I don’t think its enough that high. He’s not a top end of the rotation guy, but he’s a middle to back end of the rotation innings eater who can give you a gem once in a while.
cubtex
Good thing they never extended him.
BENT_WOOKIE
won’t be hard to trade him for a lottery ticket prospect if we sign enough FAs that he’s bumped from the rotation. doubt very much that he gets released.
Jose Roberto
Those who actually watched Wood pitch in 2014 should have noticed a huge difference — he just could not locate that cutter to right handed hitters. In 2013, the cutter had consistent movement inside to righties, inducing weak contact. In 2014, the cutter too often got the heart of the plate, and was walloped. Sometimes direct observation can tell you something that statistics cannot.
Rich Silver
T Wood for Carlos Ruiz and cash. Phillies need pitching, Cubs just lost out on Martin.
ChiMike702
It’s clear from reading the comments there’s a lot of fans that don’t understand how the arbitration process works.