Tommy La Stella, who is—after the late James Gandolfini and actor Robert Sean Leonard—the pride of Westwood, N.J., did a lot of things right in 2016.
While he will mostly be remembered for not reporting to Triple-A Iowa in early August after being designated for assignment, La Stella did enough to stick around in the organization after the impasse ended.
He got on base nearly 36 percent of the time. He walked just over one out of every 10 times he came to the plate. He chuckled appreciatively when Anthony Rizzo dropped an Anchorman...
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