{"id":79273,"date":"2024-07-08T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=79273"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:57:02","slug":"lars-nootbaar-activated-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/08\/lars-nootbaar-activated-injured-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Reinstate Another Key Player from Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals activated <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=nootba000lar\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lars Nootbaar<\/a> from the 10-day injured list Monday. Nootbaar, 26, has not played since May 29 due to an oblique strain. The outfielder went 6-for-23 with two home runs, three RBI and four runs scored over seven games<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/28\/cardinals-outfielder-start-rehab\/\" target=\"_self\"> during his rehab assignment<\/a> with Double-A Springfield. Infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fermijo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fermijo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00e9<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fermijo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Fermin<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A Memphis in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lars Nootbaar<\/strong> Activated from Injured List<\/h2>\n<p>Nootbaar&#8217;s return is the second presumed Cardinals starter to return from injury in the past week two weeks. Two weeks ago, the Cardinals <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/24\/willson-contreras-returns-injured-list\/\" target=\"_self\">activated Willson Contreras<\/a> more than a month after he broke his arm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OF Lars Nootbaar has been activated from the 10-day IL.<\/p>\n<p>INF Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn has been optioned to Memphis (AAA). <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0DdCQVIfh3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/0DdCQVIfh3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cardinals\/status\/1810344115092980164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what we were missing when he was gone, was a big right-handed bat,&#8221; Cardinals Manager Olliver Marmol said Sunday night. &#8220;He was doing a really nice job before getting hurt. Having him back he&#8217;s starting to find his timing. We&#8217;re seeing the result of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another Cardinals starter is scheduled to make a rehab start this week in Springfield, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/04\/tommy-edman-cardinals-opening-day\/\" target=\"_self\">Tommy Edman<\/a>. The Cardinals former Gold Glover hasn&#8217;t seen game action since last October after having surgery on his right wrist. Edman has been rehabbing with the team and with the training staff in Jupiter, Florida over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<h3>The Cardinals&#8217; Outfield Is Getting crowded<\/h3>\n<p>With Edman, Nootbaar, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/30\/dylan-carlson-rehab-assignment-cardinals\/\" target=\"_self\">Dylan Carlson<\/a> all missing time this season, other outfielders have stepped up for the Cardinals. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/11\/alec-burleson-confidence-cardinals\/\" target=\"_self\">Alec Burleson<\/a> has become one of the most effective bats in the League. Rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/28\/rookie-outfielder-defensive-weapon\/\" target=\"_self\">Michael Sianni<\/a> is making his case to be the best defensive center fielder in Baseball. Lately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/donovbr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-08_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brendan Donovan<\/a> has been a hot bat in the lineup. Carlson has had ups and downs in his two months since coming off the IL.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters more complicated all but one of the five outfielders currently on the roster are Lefty batters. Carlson is the only exception as a switch hitter. Each day the outfielders will be auditioning for a role. However, still expect Nootbaar to get his fair share of opportunities to get in a groove because of his potential.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Cardinals activated Lars Nootbaar from the 10-day injured list Monday. Nootbaar, 26, has not played since May 29 due to an oblique strain. The outfielder went 6-for-23 with two home runs, three RBI and four runs scored over seven games during his rehab assignment with Double-A Springfield. Infielder Jos\u00e9 Fermin was optioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5111,"featured_media":79286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1071],"tags":[28578,5815,3338,5478,28577,6420,3899,1478],"class_list":["post-79273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardinals","category-mlb","tag-alec-burleson","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-dylan-carlson","tag-lars-nootbaar","tag-michael-siani","tag-oliver-marmol","tag-tommy-edman","tag-willson-contreras"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}