MAY 4: San Francisco has placed La Stella on the IL, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle tweets. It’s going to be a long stay on the IL for La Stella, as Kapler said Tuesday he could miss four to six weeks (via Kerry Crowley of the Bay Area News Group). The club recalled infielder Jason Vosler to take La Stella’s roster spot.
MAY 3: The Giants expect to place second baseman Tommy La Stella on the 10-day injured list, manager Gabe Kapler told John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle and other reporters on Monday. La Stella strained his left hamstring Sunday.
An IL stint would continue a less-than-ideal start to 2021 for La Stella, whom the Giants signed to a three-year, $18.75MM guarantee in free agency. La Stella earned that contract on the strength of an unexpected offensive outburst from 2019-20, which he divided between the Angels and Athletics. Last season, the 32-year-old batted .281/.370/.449 with five home runs and 27 walks against a mere 12 strikeouts over 228 plate appearances.
La Stella easily led the majors in strikeout percentage (5.8) a year ago, and though the number has climbed to 13.3 this season, that’s still well above average. While La Stella’s triple-slash line has fallen to an underwhelming .235/.297/.353 across 75 trips to the plate, his .359 expected weighted on-base average is far more favorable than his .288 real wOBA and suggests a turnaround could be on the way. That will have to wait, however, now that La Stella is seemingly on his way to the shelf.
La Stella and Donovan Solano have handled almost all of the work at the keystone for San Francisco this season, but the latter has been on the IL with a strained calf since April 21. Reserves Wilmer Flores and Mauricio Dubon, who have experience at second base, look like logical fill-in candidates.
STELLA! Unfortunately, this exposes the Giants to more mental mistakes by Dubon. On the plus side, Dickerson finally made an impressive defensive play the other day. Didn’t look pretty but he made the slide.
Chill with Dubon. Despite the base running mistakes he’s been great defensively and pimped a homer vs Snell two nights ago. If his bat comes around he’s a valuable asset.
Maybe you ought to relax on defending the guy. So far, the only value he has is his glove. Between the poor bat that I don’t see much reason to have faith in and his terrible base running, he looks like a defensive substitute.
everyone has been off to a slow start this year offensively ouside of posey, longoria, we won’t know where he is at likely until the middle of the season probably – he is showing more power this year and I am not going to make any judgements on him.
Maybe you ought to relax instead of trying to find fault in the guy. It’s not like everyone is on fire with the Giants. Case in point, La Stella with more consistent playing time was hitting .235 with 1 HR, 6 RBI while Dubon is hitting .200 with 1 HR and 7 RBI. Besides Longoria .273 and Crawford .235, no one in the infield is hitting over .203.
well at least it will let Flores get some consistent ABs. He’s going to start going off soon
Hopefully he doesn’t cry once they give him full-time at-bats, but the waterworks will probably come anyway.
Dude what’s your problem with this guy? This is the second comment in as many days making fun of him experiencing an emotionally charged momentZ As if having emotions was somehow the worst thing in the world.
It’s official Egon is a racist.
Bruh freaking everyone getting injured
Way too many statistics these days. His Weighted balls in play against lefties on tuesdays when they’re in middle relief on lest than two days rest on a non shower day is .314
I call it Uecker Ball.
I heard La Stella lead the league in doubles in the bottom of the sixth with no outs on a 3-0 count in the month of June. =}
I confess what I just said is a bad rip off of Tom Selleck in “Mr Baseball” but it seemed appropriate.
And the bloodbath continues, the amount of injuries is astounding.
sucks but the upside is hopefully it lets them have space to bring vosler back up and give him some at bats