Fun with baseball names

[Bellhorn04]

Brian Butterfield and Ruben Amaro Jr.: OOBY and DOOBY (because we make so many Outs On Bases that it seems guys must be smoking ganja)

[a700hitter]

Farrell: Johnny Neuron

[BstHcpr]

Brian Butterfield and Ruben Amaro Jr.: OOBY and DOOBY (because we make so many Outs On Bases that it seems guys must be smoking ganja)

 

Farrell: Johnny Neuron

 

[Kimmi]

LOL Good stuff Bell.

 

I like the alternate uniforms (pink, blue, etc.), but MLB is going overboard with all the 'gimmicks'.

 

It's time to put a stop to it and go back to traditional.

[Bellhorn04]

The Cardinals have a prospect named J. D. Murders.

[Spudboy]

The Cardinals have a prospect named J. D. Murders.

 

He should change his name.

[notin]

He should change his name.

 

Especially after posting a .474 OPS in rookie ball. Maybe he should go by JD Murdered...

[Youk Of The Nation]

The Cardinals have a prospect named J. D. Murders.

 

J.D. Murders what?

 

Fausto Carmona!

 

Badum-chh

[Bellhorn04]

Some new additions:

 

White Sox prospect-unfortunately out for the season:

Jake Burger

 

Pitching for Pittsburgh today:

Damien Magnifico

[bkzwhitestrican]

Greatest baseball player name of all time = Brooks Pounders

 

End of thread

[Bellhorn04]

Greatest baseball player name of all time = Brooks Pounders

 

End of thread

 

Might be even better if he used his middle name - Casey.

[notin]

 

Pitching for Pittsburgh today:

Damien Magnifico

 

Damien Magnifico is the best name ever. He sounds like a Latino superhero. I can't even say his name without slipping into a Latino accent.

[Bellhorn04]

Damien Magnifico is the best name ever. He sounds like a Latino superhero. I can't even say his name without slipping into a Latino accent.

 

I know, it's a beauty isn't it.

[Spudboy]

Pronouncing his last name with a Latino accent is easy.

 

I'm having trouble with Damien.

[notin]

I know, it's a beauty isn't it.

 

With that name, he should be a starring Siempre El Domingo. Or whoever stars on that show should change their name to Damein Magnifico

 

Or better yet- that is the name that should have been given to Mandy Patinkin's (most clunky, awkward name ever, BTW) characheter in The Princess Bride.

 

"My name... is Damien Magnifico. You killed my father. Prepare to die!"

Edited March 4, 2018 by notin

[Bellhorn04]

And under the heading of fugly names:

 

Ryan Schimpf has been designated for assignment by the Rays.

[Kimmi]

Pronouncing his last name with a Latino accent is easy.

 

I'm having trouble with Damien.

 

That's like the name Wellington Castillo.

[Spudboy]

That's like the name Wellington Castillo.

 

Exactly.

 

Castillo rolls of the tongue naturally in Spanish.

 

Wellington????? That is even dopey sounding in English.

[notin]

Another classic is former Mets minor leaguer Esix Snead, whose name sounds like it came straight from a Dr Seuss book...

[Bellhorn04]

Playing for the Twins today:

Zack Granite

 

He came into today hitting .150 this spring. So yes, he's off to a rocky start.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Playing for the Twins today:

Zack Granite

 

He came into today hitting .150 this spring. So yes, he's off to a rocky start.

 

That joke would only be funny if I were stoned.

[Bellhorn04]

There are a lot of good new names popping up.

 

Like Rays prospect Johnny Field. Holy crap, what a great baseball name. Like Donnie Baseball, only it's his real name.

[Spudboy]

That joke would only be funny if I were stoned.

 

I'm high as balls and it's not as funny as it should be given the source.

[devildavid]

I'm trying to see how many different colors I can get without using nicknames:

 

Mike Green

Bud Black

Bill White

Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (great first name)

Vida Blue

[Bellhorn04]

Sonny Gray (kind of an odd weather forecast, too)

[Bellhorn04]

Pete Rose

[Youk Of The Nation]

Jim Golden

Silver Flint (My new favorite name, though maybe he doesn't count since he played in the 1870s-80s, before the MLB)

Chief Yellow Horse (pitched for Pittsburgh in 1921 and 1922 apparently. I love BR.com. )

Jimmy Lavender

 

 

Also, not a color but while looking for colors I stumbled upon Beiker Graterol, who played in exactly one game for the Tigers in 1999. He started it, pitched 4 innings, and lost. I know that it's only funny sounding because I am not Venezuelan, but he's the only player in MLB history, at least according to BR.com, with a first name that begins with Bei-. It's 2:20AM which makes that an interesting fact to me.

[NativeBostonian]

Dick Padden

Pickles Dilhoeffer

Albert Pujols

Edited March 14, 2018 by NativeBostonian

[Bellhorn04]

And now pitching for the Pirates, Dovydas Neverauskas.

[Kimmi]

And now pitching for the Pirates, Dovydas Neverauskas.

 

Nice. That's right up there with the names of the hockey and soccer players.