The Mets have signed four players to minor league deals with invitations to spring training: right-handed relief pitcher Nick Burdi, right-handed pitcher Robert Stock, left-handed reliever Anderson Severino, and outfielder José Ramos.
In his age-32 season, Burdi threw five-and-one-third innings with the Red Sox over the course of four appearances and didn’t allow any earned runs in the process. He pitched well with Boston’s Triple-A affiliate in Worcester in a much larger sample, as he had a 2.83
ERA with a 30.0% strikeout rate and a 10.7% walk rate in 35.0 innings at that level.
The 35-year-old Stock, who spent part of the 2021 season with the Mets, returned to the big leagues this year for the first time since that season. He threw just two-and-two-thirds innings with the Red Sox and had a 10.13 ERA in that tiny sample. He spent the vast majority of the year in Worcester, too, and was used primarily as a starting pitcher there. Over the course of fifteen starts and four relief appearances, he threw 85.0 innings with a 3.92 ERA in Triple-A.
Severino is 31 years old and has thrown just seven-and-one-third major league innings in his career, all of which came with the White Sox in 2022. Having spent several years before that in the Yankees’ and White Sox’ minor league systems, he’s pitched in the Venezuelan and Dominican Winter Leagues and in the Mexican League over the past three seasons. In 37.0 innings in Mexico this year, he had a 2.68 ERA with 46 strikeouts and 20 walks.
Ramos is a 24-year-old who’s been in the Dodgers’ system since his professional career began in 2019. He split his time between Double-A and Triple-A this year and hit a combined .251/.326/.456 with 18 home runs in 411 plate appearances.
