SAN FRANCISCO — You’re not a prototypical ...
“What are you saying I’m fat?” Kyle Schwarber said, joking around with the reporters at his locker before Wednesday’s big game against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park.
Cubs manager Joe Maddon likes to question assumptions and go against convention. So why change now when FanGraphs gives his team a 97.4-percent chance of making the playoffs?
The Cubs put Schwarber in the leadoff position, hoping for a spark from the left-handed power hitter who’s barreled his way into the National League’s Rookie of the Year race.
“I got a green light,” Schwarber said.