Lars Nootbaar

Lars Nootbaar

27-Year-Old OutfielderOF
St. Louis Cardinals
2024 Fantasy Outlook
Nootbaar made three trips to the injured list in 2023 due to thumb, back and abdominal issues. Those injuries limited him to 117 games and 503 plate appearances, but when available he was impressive with the bat, totaling 14 homers and 11 steals to go with a .261 average. The outfielder showcased an impressive eye at the plate with a 14.3 BB% and 19.7 K%, nearly identical to his 2022 marks. The slugging lags behind the rest of his offensive game a bit -- his SLG fell to just .418 last season -- but Nootbaar does enough well across the board to warrant a high level of interest in mixed leagues that require five starting outfielders. Given that he had a dramatic lefty/righty platoon split (200 points of OPS to be exact), it would make sense if the Cardinals sat him occasionally against tough southpaws. Even so, Nootbaar could in theory approach 600 plate appearances with better luck on the health front while rotating between the three outfield spots for St. Louis. Read Past Outlooks
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Rest of Season From Preseason
#237
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$Signed a one-year contract with the Cardinals in March of 2024.
Homer, triple in win
OFSt. Louis Cardinals
September 27, 2024
Nootbaar went 2-for-5 with a triple, a home run and three RBI in Friday's 6-3 win over the Giants.
ANALYSIS
Nootbaar started the Cardinals' comeback with a third-inning solo homer, then he put his squad ahead for good in the fourth with a two-run triple. He has three multi-hit efforts over his last six games and now has seven such performances this month. The outfielder is at a .249/.344/.425 slash line, 12 homers, 45 RBI, 39 runs scored, 18 doubles, three triples and seven stolen bases over 107 contests this season.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
13
10
4
9
27
18
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
4
1
3
4
3
2
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2022
 
 
+6%
OPS vs RHP
2024
 
 
+8%
OPS vs LHP
2023
 
 
+31%
OPS vs RHP
2022
 
 
+11%
OPS vs LHP
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2022vs Left .743 303 31 5 33 6 .255 .353 .390
Since 2022vs Right .788 952 135 35 98 16 .243 .351 .437
2024vs Left .800 109 9 2 11 3 .274 .358 .442
2024vs Right .743 296 30 10 34 4 .233 .336 .407
2023vs Left .635 124 13 2 13 1 .229 .323 .312
2023vs Right .835 379 61 12 33 10 .271 .381 .454
2022vs Left .855 70 9 1 9 2 .273 .400 .455
2022vs Right .772 277 44 13 31 2 .217 .325 .447
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2022
 
 
+23%
OPS on Road
2024
 
 
+15%
OPS on Road
2023
 
 
+14%
OPS on Road
2022
 
 
+52%
OPS on Road
OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2022Home .692 594 78 19 58 7 .220 .319 .373
Since 2022Away .854 661 88 21 73 15 .270 .380 .474
2024Home .703 194 21 5 20 1 .222 .320 .383
2024Away .809 211 18 7 25 6 .265 .362 .448
2023Home .732 245 36 8 22 5 .243 .348 .383
2023Away .834 258 38 6 24 6 .277 .384 .450
2022Home .617 155 21 6 16 1 .184 .271 .346
2022Away .935 192 32 8 24 3 .266 .396 .539
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Stat Review
How does Lars Nootbaar compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.66
 
BB Rate
12.8%
 
K Rate
19.5%
 
BABIP
.281
 
ISO
.172
 
AVG
.244
 
OBP
.342
 
SLG
.417
 
OPS
.758
 
wOBA
.334
 
Exit Velocity
91.8 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
38.8%
 
Barrels/PA
6.7%
 
Expected BA
.268
 
Expected SLG
.468
 
Sprint Speed
23.8 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
51.7%
 
Line Drive %
18.1%
 
Fly Ball %
30.3%
 
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2023 Fantasy Outlook
Was this Cardinals' Devil Magic or just good development by St. Louis? Nootbaar inched his way up the organizational depth chart since entering the organization in 2018 and has shown an ability to hit for average and get on base in the minors but that did not initially translate into the same success at the big-league level. He certainly accepted his walks as a rookie in 2021, but he has not yet hit for average in nearly 500 plate appearances at the big-league level. He did, however, show surprising power in 2022, banging out nearly as many homers (18 between Triple-A and MLB) than he had from 2018-21 (20.) The StatCast sliders show plenty of bright Cardinal Red in many of the right places, but things get funky when you dive into the splits and see 13 of his 14 homers came against righties. However, Nootbaar hit .217 against righties and .273 against lefties when left in there to face them. He had similar R/L splits in 2021 but no such troubles in Triple-A, so it could be a small case of reverse splits. Either way, he is trending in a very good direction and has gone from 2022 deep sleeper to 2023 potential five-category producer if that average against righties adjusts.
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Two hits, homer
OFSt. Louis Cardinals
September 26, 2024
Nootbaar went 2-for-5 with a solo home run, an RBI double and an additional run scored during Thursday's 10-8 loss to the Rockies.
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Sitting against lefty
OFSt. Louis Cardinals
September 25, 2024
Nootbaar is out of the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Rockies.
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Resting versus southpaw
OFSt. Louis Cardinals
September 21, 2024
Nootbaar isn't in St. Louis' lineup for Saturday's game against Cleveland.
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Slugs 10th homer
OFSt. Louis Cardinals
September 16, 2024
Nootbaar went 2-for-4 with a solo home run in Sunday's 3-2 loss to the Blue Jays.
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Out of lineup against southpaw
OFSt. Louis Cardinals
September 11, 2024
Nootbaar is not in the lineup for Wednesday's game against the Reds.
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Latest Fantasy Rumors
Capitalizing on popularity in Japan
OFSt. Louis Cardinals
April 28, 2024
Nootbaar signed a significant endorsement deal with Adidas over the winter and is set to have his own shoe line in Japan, reports John Denton of MLB.com.
ANALYSIS
Shohei Ohtani is the biggest name in baseball in both the United States and Japan, but Nootbaar has also proven quite popular after playing on Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic last year. The 26-year-old missed the first couple weeks of 2024 with two non-displaced fractures in his rib cage, and he's off to a slow start with a .189/.306/.321 slash line through 15 games.
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