TC in Mississippi
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Man if Olt can be like an Adam Dunn that gives the Cubs a great opportunity to keep Schwarber in the minors long enough to learn catcher at a major league level, as having Olt as a 3b or backup 1b/Lf blocks Schwarber as Bryant would be LF and it forces the Cubs hands to play Schwarber at catcher, or just trade Olt for more minor league depth.
I'm encouraged by Olt's spring so far as well but I still think ultimately his future is in another uniform. It's being reported that the team has no intentions of moving Castro off SS which means that Russell is likely going to be at 3B or 2B so his future is going to be determined by Baez. Bryant could start seeing LF reps as early as today but not just because of Russell but for lineup versatility as well. As far as Schwarber they are going to give him every opportunity to catch and most people in the organization have him further along than expected at C so unless he's really bad in AA this year I would expect him to play most of next year in AAA before maybe seeing time up at the MLB level in late 2016.