Nick Ashbourne
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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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And when someone has come over from Japan and been so successful there, truly been one of the best players in Japan for quite some time before joining the Toronto Blue Jays, the classification of him as a rookie does feel slightly odd, right?
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You know, a lot of the guys who are rookies are, you know, college age or you know, they've spent a couple y years in the minors potentially, and Okamoto's a fully foreign veteran, but he's not a fully foreign
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major league player.
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He's someone who is still acclimatizing to everything that involves.
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And I don't know if there's gonna be any hardware for him, I'd be surprised.
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But in terms of Blue Jay's rookie seasons, maybe you can perceive it as Blue Jay's debut season if you want to credit him as someone who's an M who's a veteran at this point in his career.
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It has been really impressive and there have been ups and there've been downs and there've been moments when he looked a bit lost, there's been moments where it's been a bit clumsy on the defensive side.
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The consistency hasn't been there, but
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Baseball is, you know, it's a long season and we're gonna look back at the totality of what Okamoto's done and there's still a month that could change the narrative a little bit, but I think we'll say this is a really encouraging start to a major league career and the investment the Blue Jays made in this player, which is a pretty hefty investment again for someone who's not played in the major leagues yet.
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looks like an encouraging investment.
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We can't guarantee that he's gonna be fantastic for years to come.
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The rest of the league may find other ways to adjust to him.
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You never know.
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Sometimes guys debut, you talked about Eric Hinsky.
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Fantastic rookie season.
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The rest of his career was not quite so exciting.
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We don't know exactly what's going to happen with Okamoto, but at this point in time, I think the Blue Jays can say this is an encouraging start to the journey with this player where we took a bit of a risk on a guy who had not performed at the major league level yet.
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The Blue Jays have this financial advantage over a number of the teams that they are competing for the spot with, right?
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Like the Cleveland Guardians are n is a team that
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does not like to take on payroll if they can avoid it.
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