- Full name Dylan Wood
- Born 12/28/2006 in
- Profile Ht.: 6'2" / Wt.: 185 / Bats: R / Throws: R
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Drafted in the 19th round (578th overall) by the Kansas City Royals in 2025.
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School: Elk Grove (Calif.) HS Drafted/Committed: Arizona
Age At Draft: 18.6
Wood is a 6-foot-2, 185-pound righthander with plenty of funkiness thanks to a deceptive delivery and lively pitch mix. He works from the first base side of the rubber and has an extreme amount of tilt and coil in his leg lift, with his back hip pointed toward the plate before unfurling with a drop-and-drive action in his lower half and throwing from a low three-quarters slot. Despite the oddity and all of the moving parts, Wood has shown solid command of a fastball that sits in the 89-93 mph range and has touched 94. While the fastball isn’t a high-octane pitch, it does play up because of his release point and his feel to locate it. Wood throws a breaking ball in the mid-to-upper 70s that typically has a three-quarter curveball look, but does vary a bit in both shape and power. He also mixes in a slow changeup in the low 70s that features a ton of drop—though the lack of power on the pitch might make it easy to identify for advanced hitters. Wood’s profile has some smoke and mirrors to it, which could wind up leading him to campus at Arizona, but he could fit on talent in rounds 4-7.
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School: Elk Grove (Calif.) HS Drafted/Committed: Arizona
Age At Draft: 18.6
Wood is a 6-foot-2, 185-pound righthander with plenty of funkiness thanks to a deceptive delivery and lively pitch mix. He works from the first base side of the rubber and has an extreme amount of tilt and coil in his leg lift, with his back hip pointed toward the plate before unfurling with a drop-and-drive action in his lower half and throwing from a low three-quarters slot. Despite the oddity and all of the moving parts, Wood has shown solid command of a fastball that sits in the 89-93 mph range and has touched 94. While the fastball isn’t a high-octane pitch, it does play up because of his release point and his feel to locate it. Wood throws a breaking ball in the mid-to-upper 70s that typically has a three-quarter curveball look, but does vary a bit in both shape and power. He also mixes in a slow changeup in the low 70s that features a ton of drop—though the lack of power on the pitch might make it easy to identify for advanced hitters. Wood’s profile has some smoke and mirrors to it, which could wind up leading him to campus at Arizona, but he could fit on talent in rounds 4-7.
