Earlier this week, I wrote about Kyle Schwarber demolishing baseballs at the Cubs Spring Training home of Mesa, Arizona. Swing after swing, he was hitting the shit out of the ball which produced the prettiest sound any real baseball fan would want to hear. I was excited to see the video of Schwarber swinging but to be quite honest, it's not his swing that I was worried about.
We saw him rake in the World Series after not seeing live pitching for over six months so the fact that he was killing batting practice pitches really shouldn't have surprised anyone.
My concern with Schwarber this year will be his mobility in the field. The Cubs arguably had the best defense in all of baseball this year and for as much as we don't want to think about it, the guy is still rehabbing a very serious knee injury.
Evan Altman put out another video tonight that showed Schwarber going through some full speed outfield drills and I have to say...I'm a little less nervous then I was earlier.
Schwarber appears to be moving around pretty nicely throughout the two-minute video. He even gets a few pointers from Jon Jay (the guy in the red winter hat) at one point in the video which is good to see the veteran center fielder already making his presence known in Mesa.
It's great to see the War Bear rumbling around left field but this is kind of the equivalent to watching Jason Heyward take BP swings.
It's really hard to see how everything will work together until we see some live game action (hell, even a Spring Training game would help.)
Just a few days ago, Schwarber was on the Rich Eisen show talking about how he wouldn't mind catching if the opportunity presented itself but he shared that the Cubs front office, along with the advice of the team doctors, would make the decision as to where Schwarber will play this year.
If this video has says anything it's that it appears we can expect to see Schwarbs roaming around left field in just a few short months.
Check it out.
https://youtu.be/h0na2GlbZiA
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