Nick Ashbourne
speaker
14,453 appearances
59 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2d ago
Nick Ashbourne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This has definitely been a better year for him defensively than most.
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I know he's already got the gold glove on the mantle.
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He's been a bit controversial in terms of how people grade his defense.
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The numbers don't look as good as I think the eye tests look, because he's quite mobile and he makes some fairly remarkable plays.
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He's also has that big arm, uh, which is you know something he inherited from his dad, who had a hell of an arm in right field.
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But also he came up as a third baseman, so he's very used to making.
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Making throws across the infield, he's brought that with him.
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And that's a talent he has a lot of other first basemen are just not very strong with.
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And so this season there just h there's been some solid plays.
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It feels like the lateral movement has been fine, even though he's dealt with the occasional nagging injury.
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And
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At the end of the season, it's just a position that doesn't have defensive superstars almost by definition, because that is where they stash players who are generally offense first players.
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And if you're way too athletic to play first base, you're going to find a different home where you can theoretically provide more value.
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So it's a it's a bit of a funky one.
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And so someone like Vlad can stand out, especially because he does light up the highlight reel with some pretty impressive stuff.
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This particular
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Play was a bit funny because the way you laid it out was accurate where he had time.
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He could set and he could throw.
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Normally, when a first person is making that decision, it's a split-second decision, and he has to basically whip the ball across the infield without really setting his feet and hammering it in there because that's how thin the margins are.
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In this case, that play, as long as he was heads up enough to notice that option was available to him, it was not actually.
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