Happ said after the game.<\/a> \u201cFelt a little lightheaded there and didn\u2019t want to pass out on the field, so made my way down the tunnel.<\/p>\n\u201cThat was as bad as I\u2019ve had it. Not the pain thing, it\u2019s the lightheadedness and feeling like you might not make it off the field. So, in that situation just getting out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Happ has been a beacon of stability for the Cubs the past three years \u2013 he\u2019s missed 17 games from 2022-2024 but was on the 10-day IL earlier this season with a left oblique strain. That injury caused the Cubs to bring up Ballesteros for his major-league debut.<\/p>\n
Ballesteros appeared in five games and went 3-for-16 (.188 average) with two walks and three RBI. He\u2019s been raking at Triple-A Iowa \u2013 he has a .331 average with 9 home runs, 56 RBI and an .888 OPS. He\u2019s been named the Cubs\u2019 minor league hitter of the year the last two seasons.<\/p>\n
Recalling Ballesteros allows the Cubs to use his bat as a designated hitting option. If Happ lands on the IL, the Cubs would likely use Seiya Suzuki in left field and could platoon Justin Turner and Ballesteros at DH, depending on matchups. The Cubs close out the three-game set against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday against right-hander Freddy Peralta.<\/p>\n
Ballesteros is a lifetime .290\/.372\/.461 (.833 OPS) with 55 home runs and 256 RBI in 437 career minor league games across five seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 The Cubs are recalling one of their top prospects less than 48 hours before Thursday\u2019s MLB…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,1271,5604,5386,1818,4247,67238,8753],"class_list":{"0":"post-104219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-ian-happ","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","14":"tag-moises-ballesteros","15":"tag-seiya-suzuki"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114941016359161631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}