Outside of the Oprah-esque 2015 season — You get a promotion! You get a promotion! — the Cubs haven’t historically been super aggressive when it comes to pushing young players up to Chicago. That trend has changed a little bit this season with Matt Shaw serving as the Opening Day third baseman and Cade Horton coming up to face the Mets. Now comes a slightly more surprising advancement, as Moisés Ballesteros is coming up to the bigs.
While his production has been more than good enough to merit a bump, the man known colloquially as Bally or Mo Baller isn’t on the 40-man roster and doesn’t have a firm position.