Lars Nootbaar Wants Back In On Team Japan

Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

Jomboy Media

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Tackle your to-do list today and get 15% off your first task at https://taskrabbit.com or on the Taskrabbit app using promo code DUGOUT. This week Cardinals right fielder Lars Nootbaar joins us to talk about his World Baseball Classic experience with team Japan, the lifelong friends he made there and how he handled a flurry of trade rumors last month. Join us every week Monday for a look into the lives of this games best and brightest stars! Show best viewed on the JM Baseball YouTube channel 0:00 Welcome back! 0:15 Lars’ game saving diving catch 2:10 Team Japan moms getting close 3:00 Making lifelong friends on team Japan 3:55 Playing for team Japan in 2026? 5:20 Do you watch Ohtani highlights? 6:10 Shohei’s stardom in Japan 8:30 Dealing with trade deadline rumors 11:25 Foul ball of his Nootbaars 13:30 See you next time! Follow all of our content on https://jomboymedia.com JM Merch Store: https://shop.jomboymedia.com/ Featuring: Lars Nootbaar, Tampa Bay Rays Hosted by: Chris Rose Edited by: Alex Graap #JMBaseball Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	We are back. It has dug out discussions with Chris Rose. A lot of fun coming your way over the next several minutes.
0:05.4	We are going to jumpstart it with Lars Neutbar. That's right. He's hanging out with us again here on John Boy Media.
0:13.1	All right, so we are shooting this the day after you make a spectacular game-saving catch in your hometown.
0:19.8	How many nasty texts did you get from friends? Yeah, it's actually
0:22.8	funny. I played here obviously a few times now, a handful of times. And so it's not like the,
0:30.9	you know, the brand new feeling, but yesterday people were saying it was either you're an a hole for you know doing that or at
0:40.8	least it was you that you know did that blah blah it was kind of the the the backhanded
0:44.6	compliment or just the straight disrespect and so got a lot of those obviously a few a
0:51.2	few you know loving text messages but other than that yeah there's a lot of hate yeah
0:55.5	there's like your boys that are like well i'm sure still dodger fans yeah no yeah exactly like
1:01.2	one of them said he was working at the bar and uh in elugendo and was like i was watching the game
1:06.3	and he was like i didn't know how to react you know he was like i was pissed but then i was
1:10.7	you know,
1:11.1	and like, it's one of my guys that I've known since pre-K.
1:13.8	So, yeah, I just got a lot of weird text.
1:17.1	But I did have a buddy that I've known for my whole life down there
1:21.1	wearing a 68 new bar rookie jersey.
1:23.2	So then, yeah, pointed to Parker.
1:25.3	Yeah, shout out to Parker yesterday for they were being there.
1:26.9	Did he get out safely?
1:28.6	I think so.
1:29.5	Yeah, I think so.
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