Who is the Cubs #19 Prospect?

[craig]

Tools are great, but guys with lots of tools often fail due to anti-tools.

 

For pitchers, lack of control is the anti-tool.

Maples, Rivero, Black, Ramirez, Vizcaino are all pitchers who appear to have good arms, fast fastballs, and plenty of good stuff.

 

For players, it's usually hitting. Jackson and Olt have beautiful defense, power, and walking attributes, and Jackson has speed too. But are they so bad at hitting that none of the good stuff matters?

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Tools are great, but guys with lots of tools often fail due to anti-tools.

 

For pitchers, lack of control is the anti-tool.

Maples, Rivero, Black, Ramirez, Vizcaino are all pitchers who appear to have good arms, fast fastballs, and plenty of good stuff.

 

For players, it's usually hitting. Jackson and Olt have beautiful defense, power, and walking attributes, and Jackson has speed too. But are they so bad at hitting that none of the good stuff matters?

 

For Jackson, yeah. For Olt, he has a lot more wiggle room because of plus-power and plus-defense at a premium position.

[craig]

Agree. The chance that Olt's hitting is sufficiently anti-awful to make him useful are better than zero. And certainly better than Jackson's.

[Guest]

Tools are great, but guys with lots of tools often fail due to anti-tools.

 

For pitchers, lack of control is the anti-tool.

Maples, Rivero, Black, Ramirez, Vizcaino are all pitchers who appear to have good arms, fast fastballs, and plenty of good stuff.

 

For players, it's usually hitting. Jackson and Olt have beautiful defense, power, and walking attributes, and Jackson has speed too. But are they so bad at hitting that none of the good stuff matters?

Great point.

[Sammy Sofa]

I don't recall Jackson being known for anything like "beautiful defense."

[Guest]

I don't recall Jackson being known for anything like "beautiful defense."

Beautiful insofar as he can handle a premium position like CF capably, I guess

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

I don't recall Jackson being known for anything like "beautiful defense."

 

Good memory, because he wasn't known for it. He's not bad, but he was always going to be a guy likely to move to a corner down the line.

[Guest]

It's been a long time, but I think the prognosis on Jackson's defense improved as he played professionally, so that he was considered an above average CF or a plus RF. Not to the extent that Olt is a great defender, but in the "tools" sense it was definitely an asset.

[sneakypower]

I don't recall Jackson being known for anything like "beautiful defense."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXGNLeoqkiA

[Guest]

I don't recall Jackson being known for anything like "beautiful defense."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXGNLeoqkiA

 

I swear we have so many guys do this. It's like they're so eager to be able to run into the wall because they aren't at home that they are overzealous about it or something lol

[imb]

I don't recall Jackson being known for anything like "beautiful defense."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXGNLeoqkiA

 

I swear we have so many guys do this. It's like they're so eager to be able to run into the wall because they aren't at home that they are overzealous about it or something lol

 

sumbitch Olt-ed himself