It was hard to imagine Kyle Schwarber anywhere else, and after four years and everything that's happened, even he couldn't picture it.

From that breakout run to the NL pennant and regular postseason contention, to his emrgence as one of baseball's fiercest hitters, the soldout and roaring Citizens Bank Park (even on a weekday), the friendships formed in the clubhouse, the support of his charity efforts, and as the free agecny cloud loomed this past season, the push from fans pleading for him to stay.

Schwarber looked back on all of it as he sat without a club for those uncertain couple of months approaching the winter...

And he just couldn't go anywhere else.

Schwarber, the star slugger who crushed a career-best 56 home runs last season, signed a five-year, $150 million deal to remain

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