Kyle Schwarber — yes, the one from Middletown, Ohio — is set to become a free agent this coming offseason. Schwarber is on pace for 57 home runs this season, and his impending free agency has some Cincinnati Reds fans dreaming of him signing on to play for his boyhood team next season. Yeah, right!
Sure, it's fun to dream about Schwarber coming home to play for the team he grew up watching as a kid, but anyone who's been paying attention for the last two decades knows that the Reds are not going to shell out the kind of money it's going to take to bring the All-Star slugger back to Cincinnati this winter.