Lars Nootbaar

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FlagshipLars Nootbaar #58 · 2022 Topps · 29 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.34Raw$19.98PSA 9$24.00PSA 10$31.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 18 nights

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The rookieLars Nootbaar #GQA-LN · 2022 Topps Gypsy Queen Autographs · 45 recent sales 7N ▼0.8%

$15.32Raw$25.00PSA 9$83.57PSA 10$109BGS 10PSA 10 · 18 nights

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Scout’s note

Lars Nootbaar came out of El Segundo, California, as an eighth-round pick in 2018 and has played 597 big-league games, hitting .241 with 64 home runs across a career that keeps teasing something more. The engine reads an EV95 of 109.07 — harder than 87% of the sample — against a luck gap of -0.0489, his results on contact below the physics for all but nine percent of qualified hitters. At 28, he ranks No. 17 of 20 on the breakout board. The last 14 MLB days are a glimpse: ten games, a .300 average, a .964 OPS, two homers, and eight driven in. This season's 70 games and .231 clip are the quieter side. The sprint speed of 27.5 is adequate rather than a weapon, so the bat alone has to do the closing.

Note written Sep 3 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Nootbaar is hitting the ball harder than 87% of the 382 qualified MLB hitters in our sample (EV95 109.1; league median 105.7), while his results on contact run further below the physics than 91% of them. Loud bat, quieter stat line — the breakout shape; he ranks No. 17 of 20 on the breakout board.

OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

109.07

Luck gap (park-adj)

-0.0489

Overlay score

0.6035

WAR (season · MLB calc)

0.6

Balls in play

174

Sprint (ft/s)

27.5

Age

28

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 26, 2026.

2026 salary

$1.57M

Tax hit

$1.57M

Service time

4 yr 76 d

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Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Arizona Diamondbacks.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 27, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$5.35M

Guaranteed

$5.35M

Term

1 yr

His class

Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

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The Bureau on Lars Nootbaar

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