The Cubs announced that right-hander Robert Stock has been claimed off waivers from the Red Sox. Stock was designated for assignment by Boston last week.
Stock posted a 4.73 ERA over 13 1/3 innings for the Red Sox last season. The 31-year-old has a 4.24 ERA, 2.16 K/BB rate, and 9.5 K/9 over 63 2/3 career innings with Boston and San Diego from 2018-20, though Stock also pitched for a number of different organizations (both MLB-affiliated and in independent ball and Mexico) since the Cardinals made him a second-round pick in the 2009 draft.
Control has been something of an issue for Stock both in the minors and particularly in the majors over the course of his career, though he does have a live fastball that regularly sits in the mid-90s. There’s little risk for the Cubs in seeing if they can turn that live arm into a more reliable bullpen weapon as Chicago looks to add relief help this offseason.
Anxiously awaiting the idiotic dumpster comments. And 3…2….
Because he’ll probably he outrighted or claimed in the next week.
Theo is gone, so can there really be any true dumpster diving comments anymore?
Ol’ Dumpster Divin’ Ricketts!
Trash Heapin’ Hoyer!
Chitown311,even though you are a jagbag, Trash Heapin’ Hoyer was pretty funny.
white sox fans have nothing better to do, they don’t know how to prepare for a potentially successful season (first one for many of them). I pity them, and the parents who have to house them for their first forty years.
Didn’t Robert Stock host “Unsolved Mysteries”?!
Maybe he can expose where the Cubs money went. Other than into the dumpster!’
That was Robert Stack.
Some of us older folks remember him as Eliot Ness……I have a picture of Thomas Jefferson in my high school yearbook…..quite the skirt-chaser, old Tom was….
Untouchable (s)
This week on Unsolved Mysteries,,,We begin our quest to search for that elusive dynasty that Cubs fans guaranteed…
Sox fan worrying about the Cubs again.
And you’ve done what since 2005, other than hosting more dog days so you can fill Guaranteed Low Attendance Field???
where’s the sox ring at? trust the prospects!
Pinstripes you are spot on
Capt. Rex Kramer!
Robert STACK.
That man was hot garbage
Worth a flyer if you think you can get his control back to the 2018 version. Otherwise he’s pretty much struggled with walks throughout his career.
If you’re claiming pitchers off the Red Sox waiver wire, you’re in deeeeeeeeeeeeeep do-do…..
Part of the dumpster fire known as Boston’s Pen!
“Perhaps YOU can help solve this mystery (and here’s what I heard as a terrified 8-year old watching Unsolved Mysteries)”; “Perhaps YOU have the killer in your basement … right now.” His voice and facial expressions were terrifying
And his vocal hopelessness sprung careers for narrators in countless Cops type shows.
And then, he headed into the basement.
Capt. Rex Kramer!
The Cubs love picking up former players & prospects out of the Boston system. This has to be #4 or #5 since the beginning of last year.