An old friend of the Chicago Cubs organization is one of the top overall free agents out there for the taking right now. Kyle Schwarber spent the first six seasons of his big league career as a member of the Cubs and helped the team to the 2016 World Series. He has developed into one of the game’s most feared sluggers and is a free agent after spending the last four seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies. The 2025 campaign was a good one for Schwarber to have his best season yet as he launched 56 homers in a contract year. Chicago hasn’t been publicly linked to many players so far this offseason, outside of its top internal free agent in Kyle Tucker. But what if he leaves? MLB. com’s Will Leitch pitched a reunion with Schwarber on a list of seven reunions he would like to see this winter. “If the Cubs aren’t going to sign the best free-agent hitter on the board — and it sure looks like Kyle Tucker will go elsewhere — then why not go after the second-best option? Of all the members of that 2016 World Series team, Schwarber is far and away the best player right now, and seeing him back at Wrigley Field would bring back all sorts of lovely memories and give the Cubs a powerful left-handed bat in the lineup,” Leitch wrote. “It would be quite a full-circle moment 10 years after that World Series season. One big difference from Schwarber’s rookie year back in 2015 on the North Side? He is highly unlikely to be a catcher this time around.” Schwarber is at a different point in his career than he was when he left. Now, he’s primarily a designated hitter. But he can tear the cover off the ball and was a fan-favorite while playing in Chicago. This is definitely not a bad idea, by any means.
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Cubs Urged To Reunite With 2016 World Series Champion