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Lars Nootbaar & Shohei Ohtani became best friends at The WBC, Shohei Ohtani, Japan national baseball team, World Baseball Classic, Yu Darvish, St. Louis Cardinals
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Lars Nootbaar & Shohei Ohtani became best friends at The WBC, Shohei Ohtani, Japan national baseball team, World Baseball Classic, Yu Darvish, St. Louis Cardinals
![Redbirds Gang on X: Shohei Ohtani and Lars Nootbaar's friendship: a very necessary thread / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fr65-n4XsAETB48.jpg)
. on X: Nootbaar's popularity in Japan is going to have a great effect on the Cardinals for years. There's going to be thousands of Japanese kids who are Cardinals fans just for him. Hopefully some of them get good and sign with the Cardinals one day
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Baseballer - Shohei Ohtani and Lars Nootbaar are reunited
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X 上的大谷翔平¹⁷ 🦄 Ohtani Shohei ¹⁷:「Shohei Ohtani and Lars Nootbaar with a fan in Miami Noot and Sho are really best friends now saw they can't be together, a
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Shohei Ohtani and Lars Nootbaar reunite in St. Louis
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Cardinals' Lars Nootbaar seems to have a budding friendship with Shohei Ohtani
![Redbirds Gang on X: Shohei Ohtani and Lars Nootbaar's friendship: a very necessary thread / X](https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/03/08/13/WBC_Baseball_Japan_94876.jpg?quality=75&height=166&fit=bounds&format=pjpg&crop=16%3A9%2Coffset-y0.5&auto=webp)
Ohtani's Japan teammates, like Lars Nootbaar, are also fans
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Shohei Ohtani and Lars Nootbaar reunite in St. Louis
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Cardinals Lars Nootbaar talks about Japan teammate Shohei Ohtani
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Ohtani's Japan teammates, like Lars Nootbaar, are also fans