James Wood holds an absurd Washington Nationals record by 3x over Bryce Harper, Juan Soto
The big slugger is special.
James Wood holds an absurd Washington Nationals record by 3x over Bryce Harper, Juan Soto originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . James Wood is special.
Washington Nationals fans know that. More and more baseball fans are learning that, too. And in this impressive record Wood already holds and is expanding on, that's proven even more.
On Wednesday, Wood notched his sixth career batted ball of at least 116 miles per hour. There have been six total batted balls of that exit velocity by every other Nationals player since Statcast began recording this data in 2015, according to MLB Network's Sarah Langs . Bryce Harper and Juan Soto each had two of them in a Nats uniform.
Kyle Schwarber and Adam Lind each had one of those for the Nationals. MORE: Yankees outfielder once battled ostrich in 11-plate spaghetti-eating contest While Soto and Harper weren't in D. C.