ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For Kyle Schwarber, his new contracts and newborns seem to go together.

Hours after Schwarber struck a $79 million, four-year deal to join the Phillies in March 2022, his wife, Paige, gave birth to the couple’s first child, Kade.

This week, Schwarber reached a $150 million, five-year deal to remain with the Phillies, just before the expected birth of a daughter.

“I was able to rush up to Philly yesterday and to get all the physicals and all that done with to get back here to Ohio to make sure that I’m not going to get beat up or anything like that if I miss my child being born,” Schwarber said during a Zoom news conference Wednesday.

“This is a little reminiscence of four years ago to where we agreed to the deal but she actually went into labor that night. Here w

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