Wow, this was a shocker. The MLB Transactions page showed that Alec Mills had been optioned to Triple-A Iowa and a report late Saturday morning had Junichi Tazawa being released, but the Ian Happ news was not something anyone expected.
“We’re gonna send Ian back to Triple-A,” Joe Maddon said Saturday afternoon. “We just want to make sure he gets down there and really gets a lot of consistent at-bats, especially from the left side. Obviously we consider him a huge part of our future.