Chicago Cubs: Is it goodbye Bryzzo; hello Schwarbellanos?

Chicago Cubs outfielders Kyle Schwarber and Nicholas Castellanos are amazing fans while having so much fun on the field. Are they the new Bryzzo?

Hey, maybe it’s an outfield thing but the Chicago Cubs are getting such a boost on the offense from their outfielders, well…you begin to think Bryzzo who?

The two heavies in the far green are Cubs outfielders Kyle Schwarber and Nicholas Castellanos. Schwarber has been proving his critics wrong all season.  He has emerged as the home run leader of the Cubs and his recent 32nd dinger put him in the top 10 for home runs in the National League.

Schwarber pushed past his previous single-season high of 30, which came back in 2017, recently against the New York Mets.  With 27 games left, I wouldn’t put it past Schwarber to get between 5 to 8 homers before the end of the season.

This is the guy the Cubs have been waiting for all season as he calmly pounds the ball into infinity as Wrigley Field and the Chicago faithful go crazy. However, a new kid on the North Side is feeding Schwarber and the Cubs team with his play and infectious energy. His name is Nicholas Castellanos.

Chicago Cubs: Schwarbellanos take on the Brewers

In the Cubs return to Wrigley from the road against the Brewers, Castellanos already was sitting on a very healthy record of .352/.386/.685. That record accounts for nine home runs and nine doubles in only 26 games since being traded from the Tigers.

So what does he do in his first home outing against the Brewers? Castellanos decimates pitcher Chase Anderson by taking him to the bank twice with a pair of two-run homers.  After the second home run, Castellanos doesn’t flip the bat like a bored statesman; he coffin-slams the bat flat against the ground as if he just sealed the Brewers fate.

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The bat bounces up as if announcing, “This is OUR house, OUR division! Everybody in?” The excitement in Wrigley has returned. If Cubs’ shortstop Javier Baez is called El Mago (The Magician) for his entertaining play on the field, then the tall, lanky, Castellanos has got to be a superhero to Cubs fans like “Mr. Fantastic”.

With power hitters like Schwarber and Castellanos in the lineup, the Cubs scoring on the road has been soaring with 26 runs in the last four games, averaging six and a half runs per game. The Brewers on the other hand, have only scored 10 runs in their last four games.

The Cubs need to win as many as they can against the Brewers and look to sweep the Seattle Mariners to try and regain that first-place standing in the NL Central. All of the Cubs will need to be at the top of their game to make it happen.

Who Maddon chooses for pitching starters and bullpen relievers will be crucial over the next week. With Anthony Rizzo’s return to the lineup, maybe we’ll get to see some good ‘Bryzzo” play before the end of the season.  If not, fans seem to think ‘Schwarbellanos’ can get us into the postseason.

I’m still thinking what a shot in the arm utility player Ben Zobrist is going to be when he returns. Imagine how Castellanos is going to feed off the energy of our first Boy Scout, Zobrist, when they start batting around each other? Things are about to get fun for the Cubs…

We may just be looking at the future ‘Schwarbellanist’.