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[QUOTE="dbmill, post: 1375182, member: 2504"]
Considering how much Olmstead strikes out, especially last summer, "whiff" is a good word to use in talking about how the scouts seemed to have misjudged him.  Anyway, probably because he was drafted and no doubt due to the Huskies need for corner outfielder answers, Olmstead is the one player whose stats I've been checking pretty regularly this summer.  For most of the summer season his average had hovered around .200, but he went on a hot streak recently.  As you mentioned he does have very good power numbers.  In addition to the 8 home runs he has 4 triples, and to further indicate some speed, he has 8 stolen bases.  Olmstead rarely takes a walk, but he has gotten hit by pitches 10 times, so that helps the on base percentage some.  As for the strike outs I alluded to earlier, I seem to recall that Olmstead struck out in well over a third of his at bats last summer, and this summer he is striking out in less than a third of his at bats, so that would seem to indicate some progress in the right direction.
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