"He's a sponge," said Weisenburger, who is in his fourth big league camp. 15. Nottingham has asked about set-up, receiving pitches and footwork. Backup catcher Martin Maldonado, Minor League veteran Adam Weisenburger and catching coordinator Charlie Greene all have found themselves fielding questions from the talkative Nottingham, who entered 's rankings of the top Brewers prospects at No. From the first day, 'Luc' told me, 'Ask as many questions as you can. I'm just trying to get everything I can out of him. "I've been asking a lot of questions-almost probably bugging him. Nottingham was pleasantly surprised by the reception. Despite all of the trade rumors, Lucroy is the team's catcher of the present. Jacob, after all, had just arrived from the A's in a trade that provided the Brewers with their catcher of the future. Nottingham wasn't sure what to expect when he started peppering Jonathan Lucroy with questions at Spring Training in 2016. My brothers toughened me up a lot, but that's their job." "I've always grown up playing with older guys. "I've got two older brothers," Nottingham said of siblings Michael and Billy. And he has a quick answer for how he acquired his trademark toughness: There aren’t better qualities for a catcher to have than those.
We just decided that baseball was going to be a goal of mine.”įootball, Nottingham said, has influenced his leadership style on the field, and his toughness.
I didn’t want to play football just because of the weight they wanted me to gain, and that wasn’t going to help me in baseball. “Just talking with him about it I just knew baseball would always be my passion. “Me and my dad talked about it,” Nottingham said. He could have gone to play football at the University of Arizona, or the University of Oklahoma for baseball.
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The series of transactions even partially inspired a change in the newest collective bargaining agreement now, teams move to the back of the waiver priority on a player if they’ve already claimed him once before in that season. He went from Milwaukee to Seattle on waivers, was reacquired by the Brew Crew for cash a week and a half later, then landed back in Seattle on waivers a couple weeks thereafter. Within a one-month span early in that season, Nottingham yo-yoed between the two clubs. That led to a shuffle between Milwaukee and Seattle teams that each valued him as a depth catcher. Nottingham exhausted his minor league option years by 2021, requiring teams to keep him on the MLB roster or make him available to other organizations. He spent most of that time as a member of the Brewers, working as a bat-first depth catcher for his first few seasons. Nottingham played in the majors each season from 2018-21. The right-handed hitter also spent part of the 2021 campaign in Seattle. The Mariners are signing catcher Jacob Nottingham to a minor league contract, according to his MLB.com transactions tracker.
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