{"id":706558,"date":"2026-05-23T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/706558\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:27:16","slug":"prep-talk-teenage-barber-is-helping-baseball-players-look-good-during-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/706558\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Teenage barber is helping baseball players look good during playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Baseball players like to feel comfortable wearing their hats but also look good when taking them off. That\u2019s where sophomore JV baseball player Noah Nolasco from Birmingham High comes into play.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been cutting hair for players in the East Valley, from Birmingham to Poly to Sylmar to Bishop Alemany. He\u2019s been busy because the playoffs are taking place, and players are apparently following the philosophy \u201clook good, feel good, play good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of his customers is Birmingham sophomore pitcher Carlos Acuna, who\u2019s 11-0 and plays in Saturday\u2019s City Section Open Division championship game against El Camino Real at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Nolasco said a taper is the favorite haircut these days and there\u2019s also players bleaching their hair blond for the playoffs. He normally charges $25.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s his<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ddocblendz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> instagram page.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball players like to feel comfortable wearing their hats but also look good when taking them off. That\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,4890,88776,2196,10615,8518,88779,19920,88781,88778,6947,7852,10668,11012,88780,88777],"class_list":["post-706558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-player","tag-birmingham-high","tag-dodger-stadium","tag-east-valley","tag-el-camino-real","tag-favorite-haircut","tag-hair","tag-high-school-sport","tag-nolasco","tag-playoff","tag-poly","tag-prep-talk","tag-sylmar","tag-taper","tag-teenage-barber"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116623654507401338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706558","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=706558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}