Daniel Hudson was a similar age (27) when he moved from the Arizona pivot to the warm up area in 2014 as Dodgers right-hander Michael Forest is today, and, surprisingly, however the progress was more by need than plan — Hudson had Tommy John medical procedures in 2012 and 2013 and needed to facilitate the weight on his elbow — it was as yet a catastrophe for his self image.

"At the outset, it's sort of extreme, it nearly appears to be a downgrade, particularly when you're youthful and you've been beginning your entire profession," said Hudson, presently a 37-year-old Dodgers arrangement man who shut games for the Worldwide championship winning Washington Nationals in 2019.

"However at that point you sort of move past that and see it as like, 'No, this is my chance to show that this is my specialty, this is my right on target the group, and I will go out there for a couple of innings with anything that I have and [dominate].'"

Woods, a beginning pitcher in 18 of his initial 25 major association games in 2022 and 2023, didn't see his transition to the warm up area this season as a downgrade, however he has plainly taken on the bulldog mindset depicted by Hudson, much to his and the Dodgers' advantage.

The 6-foot-3, 200-pounder from West Virginia battled in his initial four games as a long man and center reliever, surrendering 10 procured runs and 13 hits in 7 ⅔ innings (11.74 Period) of his initial four games.

In any case, Woods has been so powerful since April 10 that he has moved into an arrangement job, cooperating with Hudson, right-hander Blake Treinen and left-hander Alex Vesia to assist with supporting a physical issue tormented warm up area that lost nearer Evan Phillips and arrangement men Ryan Brasier and Joe Kelly over the most recent three weeks and is still without Brusdar Graterol.

Woods was 2-2 with a 2.16 Period in his last 14 appearances before Monday night's down against the Diamondbacks at Dodger Arena, a stretch wherein he surrendered four procured runs, eight hits, struck out 26 and strolled four out of 16 ⅔ innings, bringing his Time down to 5.18 in 18 games on the season.

Entering Monday, the warm up area overall has gone 6-2 with a significant association best 1.28 Time, 79 strikeouts and 24 strolls in 84 ⅓ innings of 26 games since April 21, a stretch in which the Dodgers went 20-6.

Treinen, who sat out the majority of the last two seasons due to bear wounds and the initial five weeks of 2024 in view of cracked ribs, didn't surrender a spat six innings of his initial six appearances. Vesia has not surrendered a spat 15 ⅓ innings of his last 14 games, bringing his Time from 4.05 down to 1.23.

Woods has supplanted a four-crease fastball that found the middle value of 94.8 mph last season with a more energetic two-crease sinking fastball that midpoints 95.5 mph with 15.0 creeps of drop and 11.1 crawls of flat break, while holding his 92.6-mph cut-fastball and 80-mph knuckle-bend.