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Zoolander and J.J. Watt have nothing on Brewers' new catcher of the future, Jacob Nottingham

In the last month of the 2015 season, outfielder Khris Davis hit .282 with 10 homers. So what does a 27-year-old darkhorse candidate for home run champ fetch you on the trade market?
Well, a top tier pitching prospect with an incredible mustache and a catcher of the future/linebacker/male model, apparently. On Friday, the Brewers traded Davis to the Athletics for RHP Bubba Derby (you couldn't make up a cooler baseball name) and catcher Jacob Nottingham.
Drafted by the Astros in the sixth round of the 2013 MLB Draft, Nottingham has Mike Piazza's size and profiles as a power hitter that could make a big impact at the MLB level. The 6-foot-3, 230-pound backstop was recently ranked as MLB.com's eighth-best catching prospect.

Back in high school, Nottingham was a two-way player on his high school football team and signed with the Astros rather than accept a scholarship to play linebacker and tight end at the University of Arizona:

As if those football skills weren't enough to fall back on, the kid's got the looks too. With flow like this, he could always pursue a career modeling in cologne ads:

Zoolander and J.J. Watt got nothing on the Brewers' catcher of the future.

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