This isn’t my first Tommy La Stella article and I doubt it’ll be my last. After all, very few at-bats last only one pitch and most guys — unless, like La Stella, they’re used frequently as pinch hitters — get more than one AB in a game. To that end, I wanted to quickly tie up my thoughts on the situation before moving on to what options the Cubs have moving forward.
When I first wrote about La Stella, I suspected that he had left the team in anger and called his actions “douchey.