Wes Stock
Wesley Gay Stock is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, pitching coach and television commentator. He appeared in 321 games pitched between 1959 and 1967 with the Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Athletics. Stock threw and batted right-handed; he was listed as tall and.
Stock attended Washington State University where he was initiated into Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He played college baseball for the Cougars from 1954 to 1955. He signed with the Orioles in 1956, and spent 1957–58 performing military service. His initial trial with Baltimore, in April 1959, came after only one season of minor league baseball, in the Class C Northern League.
Over all or parts of nine MLB seasons, Stock won 27 of 40 decisions, with 365 strikeouts and 22 saves in 517⅓ innings pitched. He allowed 434 hits and 215 bases on balls.
Although a weak hitter in his major league career, posting only a.051 batting average, he was better than average defensively. He recorded a.980 fielding percentage with only three errors in 148 total chances, which was 25 points higher than the league average during his career.
After his final appearance on the mound, Stock became a pitching coach for the Athletics in both Kansas City and Oakland, Milwaukee Brewers, and Seattle Mariners. He was a coach on the American League All-Star team and on the 1973–74 World Series champion A's. As minor league pitching coordinator for the New York Mets, he helped develop mound talent that would contribute to the Mets' 1969 world championship. In addition to coaching, Stock was one of the Mariners' television broadcasters in 1982 and 1983.
