Kyle Schwarber authored one of the best Cubs stories of the last decade or longer in 2016, coming back from a catastrophic knee injury suffered in the team’s third game of the season to play the role of World Series hero. His return even prompted conspiracy theories that he wasn’t really hurt and that it was all part of a plot by MLB to hand the Cubs a title.
Seriously, that was a thing.
But now it’s starting to feel like he hired Stephen King to ghostwrite his story, since all the speculation about being non-tendered would make for a really crappy ending.