Well aware of the need to improve, Nottingham told me former Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy was very helpful with him.
This past season at Biloxi, the number declined to 29 percent. In his career as a catcher, Nottingham has thrown out 32 percent of runners trying to steal. He has to improve his footwork, his quickness and his flow as a catcher. His issues relate mostly to his agility, or lack thereof. He has a strong and accurate enough arm behind the plate. He is well aware that he has to play good defense to be a viable starting catcher at the major league level. His overall mechanics still need refinement. It was a dramatic decline in batting average regardless of the arm side of the pitcher on the mound. During the 2016 season, his average dipped to between. 300 regardless of the arm side of the pitcher. In his history as a professional, he has shown an ability to equally hit both left-handed and right-handed pitchers. If Nottingham continues to combine power and a decent batting average as he did prior to this past season, he can carve out a nice career as a catcher. In 2016, Nottingham was traded to the Brewers along with pitcher Bowdien Derby for outfielder Khris Davis. In July 2015, Nottingham was traded by the Astros to the Oakland Athletics along with pitcher Daniel Mengden for pitcher Scott Kazmir. He moved up to #10 in the winter before 2019 spring training.
In 2017, Jacob was #14 in the Brewers farm system. In 2016, the Baseball America Prospect Handbook rated Nottingham as the 11th-best prospect in the A's organization. If you love baseball, the conversations are part of it." (McCalvy - MLB.com - 2/23/16) I'm trying to do the same thing myself, but it's good. "He's trying to come into his own and find his way. "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. In 2013, Nottingham got drafted by the Astros (see Transactions below).Ĭoming out of high school there were two options.In 2013, Jacob's senior season at Redlands High, he committed to the University of Oklahoma on a baseball scholarship. Nottingham played linebacker for the Redlands High School football team in California.
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