{"id":614775,"date":"2026-03-09T11:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/614775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:24:32","slug":"mariners-re-sign-jacob-nottingham-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/614775\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Re-Sign Jacob Nottingham To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mariners have re-signed catcher Jacob Nottingham<\/a> to a minor league deal, as noted in the transactions tracker on Nottingham\u2019s MLB.com<\/a> profile page. It\u2019s unclear if the deal includes an invite to big league camp for the 30-year-old.<\/p>\n

Nottingham is a veteran of four MLB seasons but hasn\u2019t appeared in the majors since the 2021 season. A one-time top-100 prospect who was initially drafted by the Astros, he was involved in the 2015 Scott Kazmir<\/a> swap between the Astros and A\u2019s before being flipped to the Brewers in the Khris Davis<\/a> deal ahead of the 2016 season. Nottingham lost his prospect shine during his time in Milwaukee and served mostly as an up-and-down catcher for the Brewers from the time of his MLB debut in 2018 until 2021, when he was claimed off waivers by the Mariners. He returned to the Brewers via trade shortly thereafter but was eventually DFA\u2019d by Milwaukee and plucked off waivers by Seattle for a second time later in the year.<\/p>\n

Then 26 years old, Nottingham ended the 2021 season with a career .184\/.277\/.421 slash line across 130 plate appearances in 54 MLB games, which remains his career slash line in the big leagues to this day. Since being outrighted off the Mariners\u2019 roster in 2021, he\u2019s bounced between the Mariners\u2019, Giants\u2019 and Nationals\u2019 minor league systems and also enjoyed a 44-game stint in the independent Mexican League back in 2024. In 293 career minor league games, Nottingham owns a .235\/.321\/.415 slash line line that\u2019s generally solid by the standards of a catcher. Those numbers are somewhat inflated by years spent in the Pacific Coast League, however, and Nottingham\u2019s 2025 campaign left much to be desired. He appeared in just 17 games in Tacoma for the Mariners organization last year, and in those limited opportunities he struggled to the tune of a .193\/.277\/.298 slash line.<\/p>\n

Given Nottingham\u2019s limited playing time last year and struggles when he did take the field, it\u2019s hard to imagine him being a significant part of the backup catcher conversation for Seattle. Cal Raleigh<\/a> is, of course, the undisputed top catcher in not only the organization but all of baseball. The Mariners are planning on having Andrew Knizner<\/a> back Raleigh up this year, although Jhonny Pereda<\/a> is also on the 40-man roster while Mitch Garver<\/a>, Brian O\u2019Keefe<\/a>, and Jakson Reetz<\/a> are all in camp as non-roster invitees. Some of those depth options figure to have opt-outs in their contracts and could look for greener pastures elsewhere in the likely event they don\u2019t make the MLB club. That\u2019s where Nottingham could come into the picture as a depth piece who is familiar with the organization and can serve as a veteran mentor for pitchers at Triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mariners have re-signed catcher Jacob Nottingham to a minor league deal, as noted in the transactions tracker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,51400],"class_list":["post-614775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-jacob-nottingham"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116198969627265948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}