Source: LHP Alex Wood agrees to 1-year, $4M deal with Dodgers
Free-agent left-hander Alex Wood has agreed to a one-year, $4 million deal to return to the Los Angeles Dodgers, ESPN's Jeff Passan reported.
"We back," Wood tweeted after news of the deal broke, adding the hashtag "ComebackSZN."
Wood, who turned 29 on Sunday, can earn an additional $6 million through incentives, according to Passan.
The Athletic first reported the terms of the deal.
Wood was limited to just seven starts for the Cincinnati Reds last season because of a nagging, season-long back injury and finished with a 1-3 record and 5.80 ERA.
Wood was part of the December 2018 trade that brought outfielders Yasiel Puig and Matt Kemp to Cincinnati from the Dodgers. He made one spring training start before his back tightened and eventually forced him to the injured list for four months, and he didn't make his season debut until July 28.
Wood was 9-7 with a 3.68 ERA for the Dodgers in 27 starts and six relief appearances in 2018, when he also went 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA in nine relief appearances during the Dodgers' run to the World Series. That followed his best year in the majors, when he was 16-3 with a 2.72 ERA in 25 starts and two relief appearances and made his first All-Star team. He had 151 strikeouts and 38 walks in 152 innings that season.
Wood's career record is 53-43 with a 3.40 ERA. A second-round draft pick in 2012, Wood broke in with the Atlanta Braves in 2013.
The Dodgers' rotation currently featuresWalker Buehler, Clayton Kershaw and Kenta Maeda as locks; Wood will compete for a spot alongside the likes of Jimmy Nelson, Ross Stripling, Dustin May, Tony Gonsolin and Julio Urias.
Los Angeles' additions this offseason have all been low-cost pitchers -- former Oakland Athletics reliever Blake Treinen, Nelson and now Wood.
ESPN's Alden Gonzalez contributed to this report.
