If the San Diego Padres are really good at something, it’s taking pitchers without much future in the bigs and turning them into valuable, exciting, and effective bullpen pieces. Robert Stock‘s path to the big leagues has been well documented but now the 28-year-old has found his home, at Petco Park in San Diego, California.
Stock entered Saturday night’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies in the fifth inning, after another disastrous start by Walker Lockett. Stock struck out four hitters across 2.2 innings of work, allowing just two hits and hitting 100 mph on the radar gun.