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Maddon Says Almora Could Hit 20 Dingers, Schwarber Will Keep Playing Through Struggles, More

Joe Maddon visited the Spiegel and Parkins Show on 670 The Score to talk about a wide variety of topics. The talk covered patience, Kyle Schwarber at leadoff, the bullpen, Albert Almora’s potential, meditation, Chris Bosio’s comments on Eric Thames, and more. In this post, we highlight some of the questions posed and Maddon’s responses to them.

On Kyle Schwarber’s struggles and continuing to play him.

Sometimes you got to be patient, and you’ll reap the rewards of being patient.

In response to Heyward saying he subconsciously changed his approach when batting higher in the order.