Cubs acquire Tommy La Stella for Arodys Vizcaino

[Guest]

Brett posted this fan highlight video of La Stella.

 

Lots of singles.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQqiuFj1gEY

[Little Slide Rooter]

It resembles a Hendry move in no way, but it feels like the opposite of what Theo and Co. have been doing, which has been to move on from players who are a safe bet to be adequate but ultimately expendable in favor of guys with a slight glimmer of hope for stardom.

[toonsterwu]

SCS, you could view it in a separate prism, namely that by collecting positional talents, this current leadership is making the "safe bet". I don't think this can be boiled down to a "Hendry" move or a "new style" move. Teams need depth, and to expect this move to be more than that right now is probably expecting too much. Actually, to expect this move to be even Luis Valbuena is expecting too much. Perhaps it happens and LaStella becomes a passable starter, but I don't think the expectations game should be anywhere near there as of now.

 

Edit: All organizations collect "safe" guys and collect "ceiling" guys. One could argue that the touted Red Sox system (one that I still think is over-hyped a bit) is more "safe" than "ceiling" (a case could be made that there isn't that much ceiling (that is, top of the rotation potential) arms (to be quite honest, I'm not sure Eduardo Rodriguez won't end up being better than Henry Owens), and then the debate would come down to a handful of positional talents, and some are ridiculously raw, while others have limited ceilings (Swihart might be the exception, but it's always tougher to play expectation games with backstops due to the wear and tear.

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It resembles a Hendry move in no way, but it feels like the opposite of what Theo and Co. have been doing, which has been to move on from players who are a safe bet to be adequate but ultimately expendable in favor of guys with a slight glimmer of hope for stardom.

 

Too many red flags to predict stardom...

 

Injury history, his plus control hasn't returned yet, inconsistent mechanics, fickle nature of relievers.