Kerry Wood's career hasn't gone as anyone thought it would, since that gray May day back in 1998 when the Astros couldn't catch up to his fastball and couldn't lay off his hard-veering breaking ball and racked up 20 strikeouts. After that outing, great expectations were foisted upon the 20-year-old Wood, despite the violent delivery that carried such great potential for injury. Wood blew out his elbow later that year and never pitched in 1999, and in the nine years in which he's been part of th ...

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