The MLB Winter Meetings haven’t even hit full fever pitch yet, but the entire league is basically staring at one guy: Kyle Schwarber. Once he picks a home, everything else in the power-bat market is expected to snap into place. Until then? It’s a whole bunch of teams refreshing their phones every 12 seconds.
And somehow, some way, the Cincinnati Reds have muscled their way into the center of the conversation.
Reds see perfect storm forming in Kyle Schwarber race the whole league is watching
ESPN’s Jeff Passan laid out the landscape pretty clearly: it’s going to take five years to lock up Schwarber, and once that deal hits, the rest of the league will swarm their next options.