Comments on: Power, Discipline, Defense: How Mike Olt Can Still Contribute to the Cubs http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/04/28/power-discipline-defense-how-mike-olt-can-still-contribute-to-the-cubs/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Richard Brandt http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/04/28/power-discipline-defense-how-mike-olt-can-still-contribute-to-the-cubs/#comment-402 Fri, 01 May 2015 12:21:08 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=457#comment-402 Thorough articles such as this one, Mr. Graebe, give me hope for baseball writers. You must have had some good coaching, both on the field and at the screen. Searching for your byline in the future,
rbrandt

]]> By: David Chase http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/04/28/power-discipline-defense-how-mike-olt-can-still-contribute-to-the-cubs/#comment-392 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:44:37 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=457#comment-392 Great job on this article Nate. I look forward to reading more. Keep up the good work. On a side note, your Hawks are playing some pretty good baseball. Luke has settled in nicely at short and is starting to hit the ball well. Talk soon. Coach Chase

]]> By: Nate Greabe http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/04/28/power-discipline-defense-how-mike-olt-can-still-contribute-to-the-cubs/#comment-369 Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:21:49 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=457#comment-369 I don’t know the exact amount of contact, but I think any moderate improvement would make him into at least a productive bench player. The career BABIP of .203 has really deflated his stats, and with his power he won’t need to hit for a high average (at all) to be useful.

]]> By: Nate Greabe http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/04/28/power-discipline-defense-how-mike-olt-can-still-contribute-to-the-cubs/#comment-368 Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:15:47 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=457#comment-368 Maybe, but at this point he’d really have to turn things around in order to produce more than Coghlan. But I think he could be a real luxury coming off the bench, especially when injuries happen.

]]> By: David Blumberg http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/04/28/power-discipline-defense-how-mike-olt-can-still-contribute-to-the-cubs/#comment-362 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 19:02:05 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=457#comment-362 Good article, man. I wonder how much of a rise in contact would be needed for him to even be productive. Like you said, given the current state of the bench, he could be very valuable to this team. I still like the overall profile, but I’m very discouraged by everything I’ve seen thus far. It would take extreme evidence in the other direction to dissuade me of the fact that Olt is simply a lost cause, at least to the Cubs.

]]> By: wthomson http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/04/28/power-discipline-defense-how-mike-olt-can-still-contribute-to-the-cubs/#comment-359 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:02:34 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=457#comment-359 I’ve made this comment on other sites, but I believe that Olt may have the most power of any Cub (Rizzo, Soler and Bryant included). In a spring training game he hit a pop-up that I thought might make it to short LF, and the next thing I saw was a ball halfway up the berm in left. Just prodigious power!

]]> By: Carlos P http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/04/28/power-discipline-defense-how-mike-olt-can-still-contribute-to-the-cubs/#comment-356 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 11:09:30 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=457#comment-356 I’m a huge Olt fan. Having someone off the bench with pop that could potentially play two or three positions is right up Maddon’s wheelhouse.

I wonder what would happen if he starts to really hit when he comes back if they’d consider Bryant in left, Olt at 3rd, and having Coghlan on the bench.

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