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9/7 Cubs (Haren) @ Cardinals (Lynn) 1:15 CST, WGN

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lance lynn gets hit reasonably well by lefthanders so let's find all the blind and deaf lefthanded guys we can and go to town

Yes, let's head straight for the false equivalency because hating his stupid face is understandably irrational. Out of the meatball and into the meat loaf.

you seem to take jokes very seriously

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Get out of my meatball dreams and get in to my meatball car.

 

Tommy La Stella stinks.

 

stinks like a rotting corpse

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It'll be weird when this miracle season gets made into a movie and Mark Ruffalo plays him and he's only in the movie for, like, 5 minutes before getting buried in the big pit outside of Wrigley.

 

That big pit is still there, right?

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you seem to take jokes very seriously

 

Yeah, it's high comedy up in here.

 

Alright, let's have some fun. Let's list all of the Hendry-era middle infielders we like better than La Stella.

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It'll be weird when this miracle season gets made into a movie and Mark Ruffalo plays him and he's only in the movie for, like, 5 minutes before getting buried in the big pit outside of Wrigley.

 

That big pit is still there, right?

 

it's actually not

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It'll be weird when this miracle season gets made into a movie and Mark Ruffalo plays him and he's only in the movie for, like, 5 minutes before getting buried in the big pit outside of Wrigley.

 

That big pit is still there, right?

 

it's actually not

 

Well, damn.

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you seem to take jokes very seriously

 

Yeah, it's high comedy up in here.

 

Alright, let's have some fun. Let's list all of the Hendry-era middle infielders we like better than La Stella.

Not including the players that never played for the Cubs that were traded away, it's a grim crew. Cubs middle-infielder seasons since 2001 with a higher walk rate than La Stella's career rate (400 PA total, the equivalent of a year):

- 2002 Mark Bellhorn

- 2008 Mark DeRosa

- 2008 Ryan Theriot

 

So yeah, sure, I'd prefer LH 2002 Mark Bellhorn and 2008 Mark DeRosa if he hit lefty. Aside from that, I'm willing to give La Stella more than 30 PA with the Cubs to prove a valuable LH IF bat.

 

EDIT: Forgot Valbuena last year, but he wasn't exactly Hendry-era. 2015 Valbuena is having a weird season though.

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damnit

 

schwarbs headshot is really bad and makes my mspaint revision look even more terrible

 

also his name is too damn long

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you seem to take jokes very seriously

 

Yeah, it's high comedy up in here.

 

Alright, let's have some fun. Let's list all of the Hendry-era middle infielders we like better than La Stella.

Not including the players that never played for the Cubs that were traded away, it's a grim crew. Cubs middle-infielder seasons since 2001 with a higher walk rate than La Stella's career rate (400 PA total, the equivalent of a year):

- 2002 Mark Bellhorn

- 2008 Mark DeRosa

- 2008 Ryan Theriot

 

So yeah, sure, I'd prefer LH 2002 Mark Bellhorn and 2008 Mark DeRosa if he hit lefty. Aside from that, I'm willing to give La Stella more than 30 PA with the Cubs to prove a valuable LH IF bat.

 

EDIT: Forgot Valbuena last year, but he wasn't exactly Hendry-era. 2015 Valbuena is having a weird season though.

 

Valbuena this year is one of my favorite baseball things ever; he has such a bizarre line.

 

And with La Stella, ultimately I have no problem with him as a backup, but right now it seems just kind of pointless to play him over Baez unless you're trying to skip a really, really tough pitcher.

 

Plus I really just want them to absolutely pound the Cardinals into submission.

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Lefties hit .260/.350/.429 off Lynn, La Stella should be in there.

LaStella has a career. .232/.306/.295 career line vs RHP.

 

La Stella has played just over 100 games at the MLB level, I honestly don't really care much about his splits compared to his much larger track record that indicates he'll be able to get hit them pretty well. I mean, do we want to compare it to Baez's career MLB line against RHP?

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Lefties hit .260/.350/.429 off Lynn, La Stella should be in there.

LaStella has a career. .232/.306/.295 career line vs RHP.

 

La Stella has played just over 100 games at the MLB level, I honestly don't really care much about his splits compared to his much larger track record that indicates he'll be able to get hit them pretty well. I mean, do we want to compare it to Baez's career MLB line against RHP?

 

No way, I need to eat lunch.

 

But if we're ultimately just still waiting to see what either can do, wouldn't it be preferable to just have Baez in there? He at least has a decent shot to stumble into blasting a dong. It's not like La Stella offers a clear defensive upgrade or anything.

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like it literally doesn't matter, i know your thing is latching on to whatever players you know from baseball mogul or whatever but there's like 0 percent difference between baez and la stella for one game
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like it literally doesn't matter, i know your thing is latching on to whatever players you know from baseball mogul or whatever but there's like 0 percent difference between baez and la stella for one game

 

It still hurts my feelings.

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But if we're ultimately just still waiting to see what either can do, wouldn't it be preferable to just have Baez in there? He at least has a decent shot to stumble into blasting a dong. It's not like La Stella offers a clear defensive upgrade or anything.

 

Baez has started the last 3 games, it's pretty clear that he and La Stella are not splitting time 50/50. That said, there's 2-3 guys for 1-ish spots right now and all 3 are important enough that Maddon doesn't want them to rot like Herrera has. Getting La Stella's LH bat in the lineup and making sure Castro(.981 OPS the last 2 weeks) doesn't go too long without a few swings is hardly unreasonable.

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I expect big things from La Stella today. Does that name translate to The Star or something?

 

In Italian, yes

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