Nick Ashbourne
speaker
7,256 appearances
30 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Nick Ashbourne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 30 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 6.
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So there are 75 catchers in the majors this year with 20 or more challenges.
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Valenzuela's percentage is 72nd.
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He's 45% coming into this game.
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It's probably improved a little bit.
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He was 45%.
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The league average is about 58%.
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So he's way below average at this for the vast majority of the season.
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I don't want to hammer him too much.
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He's a rookie catcher.
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figured it out.
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He's good defensively, yada, yada, yada.
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But not the guy you expect to flip a game with a key ABS challenge.
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And he does it there, and C seems to find some confidence.
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He finds a little bit more velocity at the end of that inning, like a little bit more 95, 96 at the very end there.
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He's able to get the slider to bite.
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The slider was really good in this game.
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I think that helped mitigate the lack of velocity from him.
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where he was sitting a little bit below 95 miles an hour again in total.
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But the slider, that's what got him five of those strikeouts.
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And coming into the game, you could have said, look, the Orioles are a high walk, high strikeout team.
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