When asked during a lengthy interview with the Sun-Times last year about how fun it might be to one day become a designated hitter, Kyle Schwarber needed just two words to sum up his thoughts:
“Hell, no.”
So maybe we shouldn't be so quick to assume he’ll be the Cubs’ everyday DH this season if Major League Baseball opens in July as planned, with a universal DH in use for a 2020 season of reshuffled leagues and divisions.
Remember, this is the same guy who dropped an F-bomb on team president Theo Epstein as a college prospect during an initial face-to-face meeting when Epstein brought up scrutiny of his catching ability — a few months before the Cubs drafted Schwarber fourth overall in the 2014 draft.