Nick Ashbourne
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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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And he still clearly has the wheels, but yeah, maybe there could be a bit more aggressiveness for him.
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You know, Ernie Clement is someone who can run a little bit in terms of pure sprint speed.
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We don't see him steal much.
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The best base stealer on the team, in terms of instincts and maybe ability to steal versus sprint.
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Speed is the guy we saw today, George Springer.
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Yeah.
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At the end of his end of his career, I don't want to sound too morbid with Springer, but in the later stages of his career, he kind of established himself as a real base stealing threat.
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And you know, it's not because he got faster in his mid-30s.
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He just, I don't know exactly what he did off the field to work on it, but that's something that he seemed to discover.
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And a lot of base stealing.
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Is about instincts and it is about feel.
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And there are a lot of guys that have that raw speed.
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And you just think, why doesn't he steal every single time?
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But it's about reading pictures, it's about finding the right moment.
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And it may not even be about the organization saying, You have a green light, you have a red light.
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You have to be comfortable actually doing it, even if they give you the green light.
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So a you know, a player like Straw, who is a role player, I agree.
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You would like to see him steal more, especially because he
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does have that track record and he knows how to do it.
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