Kyle Schwarber won’t report to Iowa until Monday. (Don’t worry. Nothing’s wrong)

Usually, when players are sent from the major leagues to the minor leagues, they have 72 hours to report to the minor-league club.

Kyle Schwarber, who was optioned to Triple-A Iowa Thursday, isn’t just any random player heading to the minors, and according to Tommy Birch of the Des Moines Register, Kyle’s going to get some extra time to report:

Players have 72 hours to report to the minors after a demotion. But Schwarber is getting some extra time and won’t be joining Iowa, which is in the middle of a series at Round Rock.

Iowa begins a homestand at Principal Park on Monday and Schwarber is expected to be with the team then.

This makes sense. It’ll give Kyle some time to find a place in Des Moines, and maybe give him a bit of time to “reset” himself from what has been a rough season for him offensively.

Iowa’s homestand lasts seven games, then they head to Oklahoma City for a three-game series, then they’re back in Des Moines for three more before the Pacific Coast League takes its All-Star break. (I still can’t quite get used to a team in the middle of Iowa being in the “Pacific Coast League,” but there it is.)

It could be that Schwarber will rejoin the Cubs in Baltimore after the All-Star break; that’s a series in which he could serve as the Cubs’ DH. I was reminded yesterday of Joe Maddon’s “Tommy Tutone” lineup with the Rays in 2014 in which he ordered the first seven hitters (DH = 0) in the order of the numbers of the song “867-5309”:

You know, if Joe wanted to swap Anthony Rizzo out of the No. 1 spot in the lineup for a day, he could do something like this with the Cubs:

Jay CF
Russell SS
Zobrist LF
Bryant 3B
Rizzo 1B
Schwarber DH
Heyward RF
Contreras C
Baez 2B

That’s actually a not bad, workable lineup. I find myself hoping Joe will do it, at least for one game.