Kyle Schwarber was hitting angry prior to his first game with the Iowa Cubs. Swinging with enough force to hit home runs off the tee at Principal Park, the demoted slugger looked like he had something to prove.
“[A demotion is] obviously something that you don’t want to have, and it ticks you off a little bit,” Schwarber told reporters prior the game. “You can’t press, you can’t do anything like that. But you try to make things happen. You’ve got to go back to what made you successful in the first place.”
It was the first he’d spoken publicly about the trip to Iowa that was announced and his words echoed those of Theo Epstein, who explained the team’s decision last Thursday.