Asche's locker sits next to Utley's, but, just as significantly, it's next to Ryan Howard's, too. Howard is the sort of superstar, with the Subway commercials and the perennial MVP consideration, who can show Asche how to do what Utley has failed to do: to be The Man every day, not just when the whim suits him. Utley never would have agreed to the 10 days of glad-handing that Asche just experienced as the centerpiece of the team's annual minor league winter caravan.