Nick Ashbourne
speaker
14,453 appearances
59 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 3d ago
Nick Ashbourne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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be a little bit better rounded and, you know, get on base via the walk as well.
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we could see a really compelling finish to the season for him because as much as he's a veteran player who has been playing professional baseball for a long time, he is still a rookie, he's still adjusting in many facets of the game.
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And so he's been really impressive recently and he is feeling a little bit more like that middle of the order bat that he's been forced to be for much of the year because there haven't been good alternatives.
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Now in the last, you know, we week in a bit.
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it's just been a bit more of a complete package.
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We'll have to see if that continues over time, but it's really encouraging stuff in the last little bit for him and if he is hot and Kirk is hot and Springer is hot and even if Laddie is not, you're starting to talk about a middle of the order that feels like a middle of an order as opposed to the guys who just happen to be pensed on the lineup in those spots.
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And even the way they set up the lineup, say Vladdy is hitting second for much of his time, and you want your second hitter to be among if not your best hitter.
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So the fact that he's not doing that is noticeable and it is a bit of a problem.
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But just the shape of his production this season, which overall again has been well below expectations, when he has had streaks where he's been decent, like April, he was a pretty good hitter in April.
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People wanted more home runs.
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Other parts of the season where he's had a little bit of production, he's got a little bit of momentum.
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The way he's done it is by being a really strong on-base guy.
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I don't know if they actually believe that the power is gonna come back in a big way, that that might require a physical reset, a mechanical adjustment that's just too difficult to do on the fly.
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But a version of Vladdy that can be effective probably in the last month or so is one who
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Who just gets on base pretty consistently.
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So with the you know, the line drives around the ballpark and him taking his walk.
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So if Bateman and Vladdy are getting on base and then you have the Kirk Springer Okamoto providing a little bit more thump, driving them in, that shape of a lineup could work.
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But if someone wants to move Vladdy down to five at the moment, I think that's understandable.
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I don't think that that's where these games are ultimately gonna be won.
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or lost, but I could see a scenario where you get Bateman, Vladdy, Kirk and that middle chunk and again it's just starts to look like a more functional lineup than we've seen most of the year.
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