Frank Schwindel has had one of the more unusual baseball stories I can ever remember. We certainly all have seen stories where a guy gets demoted, has a good attitude about it, works his butt off and then comes back and lays waste to the league afterwards. Can that happen when you never actually reported to a minor league club?
We all know the story, Frank was supposed to go back down to Iowa for a bit to work out his struggles away from the lights, camera and action of the big leagues. But COVID and a rash of injuries attacked the Cubs clubhouse, Frank was recalled before he ever reached Des Moines and then he was back in the lineup.