The Mets have agreed to minor league contracts with pitchers Robert Stock, Nick Burdi and Anderson Severino and with outfielder Jose Ramos, according to SNY. Mike Rodriguez reported the Severino agreement a couple weeks ago, while Burdi’s deal first appeared on the MLB.com transaction log. Stock has confirmed his signing on social media. All four players receive invitations to big league camp.
Burdi and Stock each spent the 2025 season in the Red Sox organization. They both got brief looks in Alex Cora’s bullpen. Burdi tossed 5 1/3 scoreless innings with five strikeouts and a pair of walks over four appearances. The 32-year-old has good stuff but has never been able to stay healthy. He missed a couple months with a foot injury this year and has previously had thoracic outlet syndrome, two Tommy John surgeries, appendicitis, and hip issues. Burdi has a career 3.05 ERA with a 31.3% strikeout rate in 76 2/3 Triple-A innings. He has pitched in parts of six MLB campaigns but has yet to reach even 10 big league innings in a season because of the injuries.
Stock, 36, made two appearances for the Sox this year. He walked four batters and gave up three runs over 2 2/3 innings. Stock has worked as a reliever in MLB but started 15 of 19 outings at Triple-A Worcester. He tossed 85 innings with a 3.92 ERA while punching out an above-average 26.2% of batters faced. Stock hasn’t found much MLB success since turning in a 2.50 ERA over 32 appearances as a rookie with the 2018 Padres. He still sits in the mid-90s with his fastball and has intrigued various teams as a depth signing. Stock previously spent time in the Mets’ system, starting four Triple-A games for the organization in 2021.
Severino is a 31-year-old lefty reliever who pitched six times for the White Sox in 2022. He has spent the past two seasons pitching in the Mexican League. Severino has tossed eight innings of two-run ball with 11 punchouts in the Dominican Winter League to get back to affiliated ball. Ramos, 25 in January, has never played in the majors. He spent seven seasons in the Dodgers’ system and combined for a .251/.326/.456 batting line between their top two minor league affiliates in 2025. The right-handed hitter changes organizations for the first time as a minor league free agent.
Justin Willard bringing in his experiments. Depth.
Not too late for Stock to try catching again! I kid, but he was one of the Cardinals’ top position player prospects 2009-11 and never really “failed” at catching before moving to pitching. Props to him that he’s still playing, and I hope he can find a permanent spot this year. Cool that he’s added a knuckle curve.
mack423: But it obviously is too late since he’s a pitcher now.
Unless you know more than the people doing the scouting and signing, which I seriously doubt.
What are you talking about? lol
Stock was the best young player in the country from the time he was 13 and enrolled in college when he was 16. When he was drafted by the Cardinals 15+ years ago he got a $525k signing bonus. He’s stuck with it playing in the minors and overseas. It almost seems pitching is a hobby and he is the Mike Hessman of the pitcher’s mound (hit 433 home runs in the minors en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hessman)
He seems to have a really good arm but has had problems fooling hitters because of lack of movement and trying to be too precise with the pitches which never works well, He’s had flashes of brilliance. Saw him a couple of years ago in the Atlantic League a couple of weeks after he threw a no-hitter for the Long Island Ducks. He gave up 9 runs in 5 innings and threw 182 pitches. When he wasn’t good in the minors he ate up innings. He obviously loves baseball, and I hope he can finally get a long and productive stay in the bigs. His Wikipedia page shows the travels and ups and downs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stock
Well, it appears he has two fans in his corner.
Greybelt has it right. His pitches are so hittable bwcause there is no movement on them. Like the old Iron Mike pitching machine
Nice background on this guy, from what you say he’d probably get better instruction from the Dodger farm system, they seem to get the best out of a person’s potential. Thank you for this mini article.
Not the Robert I thought the Mets would sign
Mets got their guys!! I’m sure their new LF is also on his way to queens on a bus from Albuquerque.
Queens* is a proper noun
Dumpster diving again I see.
Is Robert Stock married to Steve Cohen’s wife sister?
Who is the genius who made the decision to take up a Syracuse roster spot that shoild have been available to another kid?
It is the Mets not learning from history again.
Doomed to repeat hsitory’s mistakes.
This guy is 35 years old. He peaked 7 years ago.
Really tough to rally behind this team when they pull stunts like this.
And it figures the Mets would sign the WRONG Severino, the one who averages more than a walk an inning thru his recent professional career (9.7 in 2024), not the one they shouldhave signed. ahead of Frankie Mistake-tos
Great story in the New York Post about the signing nypost.com/2025/11/26/sports/mets-reunite-with-pit…
LOVE his wife’s comment:
Stock’s wife, Sara, even joked during the 2020 campaign she’d consider filing for divorce “if he keeps walking the lead-off batter.”
I hope he makes it