Travis Wood

He earned Pitcher of the Week of the Florida State League for the week of 4/28-5/4, going 2–0 with a 1.38 ERA in 13 innings over the stretch, allowing two runs and striking out nine.

Wood earned a promotion to the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Class AA Southern League on May 25.

He struggled in 17 starts, going 4–9 with a 7.09 ERA.

In 80 innings, Wood allowed 91 hits, 67 runs (63 earned), nine home runs, walked 48 and fanned 58.

Travis Alan Wood (born February 6, 1987) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, and San Diego Padres.

Born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, Wood attended Bryant High School where he starred in baseball and football.

At the Babe Ruth World Series, Wood tossed a no-hitter, striking out 17, and at Bryant, Wood received All-State honors in each of his three seasons at the school.

During his junior season, Wood also led Bryant to a state championship, and was Arkansas Gatorade Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005.

The Cincinnati Reds selected Wood 60th overall in the 2005 Major League Baseball draft out of Bryant High School.

He chose not to attend college and went straight to professional baseball.

Wood's first season as a professional was split between the Reds' Rookie Class teams, the Gulf Coast League Reds and the Billings Mustangs.

He went a combined 2–0 with a 1.29 ERA in 14 games, including 11 starts.

Wood held batters to a .166 batting average, struck out 67, and pitched 47 2⁄3 innings, including 17 2⁄3 scoreless over his first six appearances.

Wood spent all of 2006 with the Class-A Dayton Dragons.

He started 27 games and compiled a 10–5 record and a 3.66 ERA.

Wood fanned 133 batters and held opponents to a .215 batting average.

He was named Midwest League Pitcher of the Week for May 15–21, going 2–0 in 10.1 innings, striking out 13, and allowing one earned.

Wood allowed only two runs in 26 innings pitched, while striking out 14 in his final four starts of the season.

Wood was placed on the disabled list on July 10 and stayed there until September 14.

In 12 starts for the Sarasota Reds of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, he went 3–2 with a 4.86 ERA.

In 46.1 innings, Wood allowed 49 hits and 27 walks, striking out 54, and opponents batted .268 off him.

Wood began the 2008 season in Sarasota, and went 3–4 with a 2.70 ERA in nine starts.

He held batters to a .222 average while with the team.

Wood started the 2009 season with the Carolina Mudcats, the Reds new Southern League affiliate.

That time around, he improved drastically over his previous season in Double-A.

Wood pitched 119 innings over 19 starts, going 9–3 with a 1.21 ERA.

Allowing just 16 earned runs on 78 hits and 37 walks, he also stuck out 103 batters and hitters batted only .189 off the lefty.

Earning a call-up to the Louisville Bats of the Class AAA International League, Wood went 4–2 in 48.2 innings for the Bats.

He allowed 43 hits over eight starts, walking 16 and striking out 32.

The Reds added Wood to their 40-man roster after the 2009 season to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft.

Wood was one of the last players cut from the Reds' roster in Spring Training, and was one of many competing for the Reds' fifth starter spot.

In a crowded race featuring veterans Mike Lincoln and Justin Lehr, young arms Micah Owings and Matt Maloney, and prospects Sam LeCure, Aroldis Chapman, and Mike Leake, Wood came down to the last two but was cut in favor of Leake.

He started the season in Louisville.

On June 30, Wood was called up from Triple-A Louisville replacing Daniel Ray Herrera on the Reds active roster Wood made his major league debut on July 1, 2010, versus the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, getting a no decision in an eventual 3–2 Reds victory.

In his third career start, versus the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on July 10, 2010, Wood flirted with a perfect game, pitching eight flawless innings before surrendering a double to Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Regardless, Wood actually could not have finished the perfect game in the ninth inning, because Phillies ace Roy Halladay, who himself had thrown a perfect game earlier in the 2010 season, also was pitching a shutout through nine innings.

Wood exited after nine innings of one-hit ball, and the Reds would later lose the game 1–0 in 11 innings, with Ruiz scoring the winning run.

Wood hit his first career home run on September 4, 2010, off St. Louis Cardinals' Adam Wainwright.

Wood finished the 2010 season 5–4 with a 3.51 ERA in 17 starts.