Robert Stock

Yeah, there should be some passion.

This doesn't have to be boring.

Uh, I mean the, the season ends and my agent tells me on the first day that your team start reaching out to players, which is five days after the last game of the world series.

And he says, you know, such and such teams have reached out to me so far.

Uh, we're not, you know, they're not extending, um, offers just yet.

They want to see you pitched down in the Dominican first and, uh, it'll go from there.

And so I, I threw a couple of games down there and, uh, was clearly healthy and feeling good.

And, um,

some offers go on the table.

You send them like, well, this team offered me this.

Can you match it or go better?

And then, you know, that's how it works.

I wasn't surprised because when I was with the Red Sox this past year, what a great organization for presenting the players with the information that they need to be able to evaluate their performance and know how they're doing.

I pitched a couple innings in the big leagues, which did not go well.

But I had done so well in my performance in the minor leagues, which was obviously 99% of what I did last year, that I felt that teams would see that and think that there was some promise there.

And that's what happened.

Yeah, so in the summer league, I had started to do it like a hybrid kind of versus right-handed hitters.

I would drop lower versus left-handed hitters.

I would be normally over the top.

And then in the winter, in my second game, I gave up a home run to a lefty.