Before Addison Russell was called up to join the big league Chicago Cubs, 26-year-old infielder Tommy La Stella opened up the year as the team’s second baseman with Javier Baez being demoted to the Triple-A Iowa Cubs.
He appeared in only two games with the Cubs until suffering an oblique injury which has kept him on the sidelines for the entire first half of the 2015 campaign. According to Jesse Rogers on Twitter, La Stella has been activated from the disabled list and will remain with the Triple-A affiliate in Des Moines, Iowa where he went 9-for-36 in 10 rehab games.