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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Um so yeah, I don't think that that's gonna go down as one of Ross Atkins' great trades because if you look at what they got back, none of it was super impactful.
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But they were also dealing a player who was coming up on his final.
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Final year, and that's something that you often end up doing when you just don't feel like the team is going to come together as a player on a new contract.
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And when he was entering his 30s with his defensive issues, like I understand how all that happened.
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The flip side of that is just he was an incredibly entertaining player.
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And I think as a person, someone people really connected with.
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And so I get why there's a little bit of a sore spot there with him.
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And then in some of the subsequent years, they have
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of lacked the power that was his signature skill.
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So I think a lot of I don't know fan frustration gets put into this one transaction and I understand why, but it wasn't a particularly crazy t trade at the time.
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And in twenty twenty three, if he had been with the Blue Jays kind of producing what he did in Seattle, he wouldn't have been that impactful a player.
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Yeah, and some of that's gonna depend on who's at the plate and whether you feel like they're a power threat and you wanna risk that out in front of them.
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But because the Blue Jays are still more of a singles hitting team, it is really beneficial to have guys at second base.
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And you have a guy like Miles Straw who has that level of speed.
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And some of his lack of steals comes down to the fact that he just has not been a great offensive player this year, just hasn't been on base that much, right?
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He's got an on
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Base percentage of 298 coming out of this game.
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So that's a big part of it.
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He is someone who's stolen 20 plus bases in the majors three times before.
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It's not like he doesn't know how.
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