He’s Robert Stock. The 35-year-old comes from Bellevue, Washington, and was a second-round pick in the 2009 MLB draft. He most recently played with the Narajaneros de Hermosillo in the Mexican Pacific Winter League, where he pitched 84 1⁄3 innings and racked up ten victories. Obviously pitching for the Boston Red Sox is a different than playing in Hermosillo, Mexico. But Stock’s also done that, pitching 13 1/3 big league innings for the team in 2020.
The guy nicknamed “Cretch” had a pretty fantastic start so far in Worcester, going 8 1⁄3 scoreless in two starts allowing just four hits on twelve strikeouts.