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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Alejandro Kirk has as well.
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He's a great hit and run candidate because he doesn't strike out much.
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He hits the ball on the ground a lot.
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When he hits the ball on the ground, it's basically an automatic double play.
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And also when you're asking guys to hit and run, sometimes that
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limits, you know, their capacity to work the at bat and really sell out for power.
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With Kirk, you're not losing that much.
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You know, I say that now, he's in the middle of this great power stretch.
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But traditionally Kirk has been more of a contact hitter.
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So you say we're gonna do hit and run, we just want you to put the ball in play, you're costing yourself less of the power element.
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And so with Vladdy
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Traditionally one of the reasons why you wouldn't ask him to do too many hidden runs is because even though you feel confident he could put the bat on the ball, you want him to work the count the way he wants to work it and you want him to be able to unleash his A swing when it feels best to him.
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But right now he's not really performing in that power element, so getting him involved in a hidden run makes a little bit more sense.
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One guy I'd throw into the mix
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from the hitting perspective is Nathan Lukes.
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He actually has the highest ground ball rate on the Blue Jays at fifty point nine percent.
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And we also know that he's someone who can put the bat on the ball and you're not losing out too much power necessarily by asking him to do it.
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Not to say you can never hit for power in a hidden run.
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It just I think the chances of you actually delivering that huge extra base hit probably goes down a little bit.
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Again, Lukes is a guy who's hot recently, he's put some balls over the wall recently, but that's not really his game.
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