Or, possibly, they'll try to trade him for a fairly light return. If Piña and Narvaez are healthy when he's ready to come of the IL, Brewers will try to outright him to the minors and hope no other team puts in a waiver claim. But it's obviously worth it when you want everything to come out how you want it.His role going forward is that he's starting the season on the IL. Each piece was about eight hours, so it was a lot of time. He did my first one, my mom, and it's it's just unreal how realistic it looks.Ī.
Wes Hogan in Yucaipa, (California) did an unreal job. We're a big baseball family and Lou Gehrig is a big talk in our family, so I thought this was the perfect thing to do for them and my dad. Then my dad lost his mom and his sister to ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, so I've got them walking up the stairway to heaven to Lou Gehrig. Obviously my parents are everything to me, my family is everything to me, and I know they enjoy riding their Harley. Then I got them on a Harley, riding together. Can you describe it, and what it means to you?Ī. I got a portrait of my mom for her 50th birthday and then I got my dad this off-season. You have a lot of very intricate tattoo work on your left arm. You've just got to show up every day, ready to go to work. You go from playing every day in the minor leagues, catching a lot, to having your role switch. But for now, just be ready whenever they need me and just keep learning.
JACOB NOTTINGHAM SCOUTING MILB FULL
When I get my chance, I'll try to take full advantage of it. But we have great catchers on this team, and you've got to know your role. As you get older, is it becoming more difficult to be patient and to wait for "your turn?"Ī. You obviously want to be in the big leagues. You've had some very good catchers, as you've mentioned, ahead of you in the organizational pecking order. It's fun to see a guy like him just improve so much and go about his work in the right way. He's having a good year, too, down there in high A (Carolina). Me and him, everything literally thinks we're brothers. That's what me and him were talking about a lot this spring, to be honest: "I was in your shoes and the best thing to do is just learn from these guys." He had Kratz and Grandal and Tuffy (Gosewisch) to learn from just as much as I did. Was it like looking in the mirror a little bit?Ī. You were 20 in your first big-league camp, which is the same age the latest Brewers catching phenom, Payton Henry, was this spring in his. It makes baseball, makes this job way more fun. They make everything easy and everything comfortable. I'm obviously just trying to keep that going and I'll just keep following the guys on this team. It's fun to see everything click and see how much better a player I've become. I've come a long ways with catching and just everything in general. Do you ever stop to think about how crazy that is?Ī. Yeah, it's crazy. You have four major-league spring trainings under your belt now and you just turned 24. But I try to take in as much as I can, and whatever works in my game, I try to use it. Obviously you pick and choose what's going to help you everyone's different. So anytime I get a chance to learn from them, I'm going to do it.
JACOB NOTTINGHAM SCOUTING MILB TV
It wasn't too long ago that I was watching these guys on TV in high school. So, just super lucky to have those guys behind my back and to learn from them. Then once you're in the game, you just kind of let everything take over. So to be honest, I give a lot of credit to them just teaching me different things and different ways to go about scouting reports and just watching the game.
A lot of young catchers haven't had the opportunity to learn from guys like that so consistently. I've been very, very lucky to have a lot of great catchers to teach me and to learn from, from (Erik) Kratz to (Stephen) Vogt to (Yasmani) Grandal and (Manny) Piña and all the way back to (Jonathan) Lucroy. How much have you grown and matured as a player since first coming up last April?Ī.
You've bounced back and forth between the minors and the majors four times since making your debut early last season. Something crazy could happen, so I was just trying to do my job.
Just going into that at-bat I just tried to keep in mind we had a good rally going, and I was just trying to do anything I can to get the next guy up. That two-run homer accounted for your first two major-league runs batted in, and then you added two more in the ninth with a single during a rally that made a blowout game interesting.
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