2015: The Back To The Future Season

[SKO]

Also I hadn't realized La Stella's only played 1 season and didn't fare that well.  He kinda sucks.  Why have I been waiting all year for this guy again?

Also is he aiming to set some sort of record for longest minor league rehab stint? I feel like he's been down there for a month.

Also technically his rehab assignment ended and they optioned him to Iowa because they didn't think his timing was up to par yet.

[Quality Start Machine]

Also I hadn't realized La Stella's only played 1 season and didn't fare that well.  He kinda sucks.  Why have I been waiting all year for this guy again?

Also is he aiming to set some sort of record for longest minor league rehab stint? I feel like he's been down there for a month.

Also technically his rehab assignment ended and they optioned him to Iowa because they didn't think his timing was up to par yet.

LaStella could have been our new lovable gritty-but-bad-at-baseball matinee idol.

[Slaky]

Also I hadn't realized La Stella's only played 1 season and didn't fare that well.  He kinda sucks.  Why have I been waiting all year for this guy again?

Also is he aiming to set some sort of record for longest minor league rehab stint? I feel like he's been down there for a month.

Also technically his rehab assignment ended and they optioned him to Iowa because they didn't think his timing was up to par yet.

From what I've heard the org is very down on Baez. He won't be up until Iowa's done probably. I wouldn't be shocked at all if they traded him. It would help if he'd get hot first.

[SKO]

Also I hadn't realized La Stella's only played 1 season and didn't fare that well.  He kinda sucks.  Why have I been waiting all year for this guy again?

Also is he aiming to set some sort of record for longest minor league rehab stint? I feel like he's been down there for a month.

Also technically his rehab assignment ended and they optioned him to Iowa because they didn't think his timing was up to par yet.

From what I've heard the org is very down on Baez. He won't be up until Iowa's done probably. I wouldn't be shocked at all if they traded him. It would help if he'd get hot first.

Can I ask where you've heard that? Because the scuttlebutt I heard was the lack of a big deal at the deadline had a lot to do with their unwillingness to move Baez, so something isn't adding up here.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Also I hadn't realized La Stella's only played 1 season and didn't fare that well.  He kinda sucks.  Why have I been waiting all year for this guy again?

Also is he aiming to set some sort of record for longest minor league rehab stint? I feel like he's been down there for a month.

Also technically his rehab assignment ended and they optioned him to Iowa because they didn't think his timing was up to par yet.

From what I've heard the org is very down on Baez. He won't be up until Iowa's done probably. I wouldn't be shocked at all if they traded him. It would help if he'd get hot first.

Can I ask where you've heard that? Because the scuttlebutt I heard was the lack of a big deal at the deadline had a lot to do with their unwillingness to move Baez, so something isn't adding up here.

The story was they were offered too little for what they think Baez is worth. And they couldn't get anything for Castro.

[Oleg]

Also I hadn't realized La Stella's only played 1 season and didn't fare that well.  He kinda sucks.  Why have I been waiting all year for this guy again?

Also is he aiming to set some sort of record for longest minor league rehab stint? I feel like he's been down there for a month.

Also technically his rehab assignment ended and they optioned him to Iowa because they didn't think his timing was up to par yet.

From what I've heard the org is very down on Baez. He won't be up until Iowa's done probably. I wouldn't be shocked at all if they traded him. It would help if he'd get hot first.

Can I ask where you've heard that? Because the scuttlebutt I heard was the lack of a big deal at the deadline had a lot to do with their unwillingness to move Baez, so something isn't adding up here.

The story (that I wrote down on a piece of paper and then read out loud and reposted here as if it was fact) was they were offered too little for what they think Baez is worth. And they couldn't get anything for Castro.

Chuck'd.

[Saul Goodman]

I'd like to see someone make a fun and interesting infographic like this for the Cubs' sweep of the Giants. Unless that jinxes the upcoming series in San Francisco, in which case never mind.

[Quality Start Machine]

I'd like to see someone make a fun and interesting infographic like this for the Cubs' sweep of the Giants. Unless that jinxes the upcoming series in San Francisco, in which case never mind.

I'm not sure what will be more fun for us to sink our teeth into - the west coast trip or the 3 weeks in September that feature a dozen games against the Pirates and Cardinals.

I fucking love having this time of year back.

[Saul Goodman]

Why is there no Cubs game today?  Damn it, MLB.

[InternetApex]

Why is there no Cubs game today?  Damn it, MLB.

Thanks, Obama.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Why is there no Cubs game today?  Damn it, MLB.

Thanks, Obama.

He is a Sox fan.

Because that's what Michelle told him to be.

[SKO]

I can't help but immediately think it's one more play closer to seeing Baez there.

Probably true, but while Baez is OPSing an even .800 since returning to AAA from his injury, he's in a funk again. Last 10 games: .200/.293/.286/.578. 9:5 K:BB.  Can't see him here until after 9/1, maybe 9/8 the day after the Iowa season ends.

6-14 with a walk in his last 3 games. CALL HIM UP, EPSTINK.

[Saul Goodman]

Hunter Pence Underpants will miss the Cubs-Giants series next week, as he's been placed on the 15-day DL.

[CubFaninHydePark]

That was a perfectly great comeback to light on fire. Damn.

[SKO]

Hopefully that at least keeps Hammel from bitching the next time Joe has to pull him early before he goes full turd.