Earlier this week, I wrote about Kyle Schwarber demolishing baseballs at the Cubs Spring Training home of Mesa, Arizona. Swing after swing, he was hitting the shit out of the ball which produced the prettiest sound any real baseball fan would want to hear. I was excited to see the video of Schwarber swinging but to be quite honest, it’s not his swing that I was worried about.
We saw him rake in the World Series after not seeing live pitching for over six months so the fact that he was killing batting practice pitches really shouldn’t have surprised anyone.
My concern with Schwarber this year will be his mobility in the field. The Cubs arguably had the best defense in all of baseball this year and for as much as we don’t want to think about it, the guy is still rehabbing a very serious knee injury.
Evan Altman put out another video tonight that showed Schwarber going through some full speed outfield drills and I have to say…I’m a little less nervous then I was earlier.
