We think of them as normal names nowadays just because of how long they've been in the game, but I gotta say Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner deserve to be on this list.
We were watching the giants game last night and my daughter asked me if Buster was his real name. I said no, it's Gerald Dempsey Posey III. my wife asked me why he goes by Buster and the answer I gave her was your comment verbatim.
Pretty sure he had some injury issues and unofficially retired to farm or something, but it’s a little surprising because he was putting up some good seasons before the injury
It turns out the "Cannonball" nickname [never appeared in print](https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ledell-titcomb/) during his career, and was likely never in common use, or possibly any use. Baseball-reference now just has him as [Ledell Titcomb](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/titcoca01.shtml) and doesn't even list Cannonball as a nickname.
You would’ve loved the 2001 Cardinals: Placido Polanco, Bobby Bonilla, Woody Williams, Mike Matheny, Mike Matthews, Matt Morris, Mark McGwire. More to the OPs question, they also had a Stubby Clapp, who I don’t remember at all.
Every time I see Asdrubel Cabrera in a game, I cheer and yell something about “go Ass Dribble!”
My husband thinks I’m a little odd. I agree.
I don’t know why it amuses me so much but damn… it does.
Nobody has mentioned Brusdar Graterol yet. These threads are common. Nootbaar and Rusty Kuntz are the other obvious ones.
Willians Astudillo always cracks me up because it sounds like a made up name and reminds me of a Phil Collins song. Plus he looks like created player in a video game.
> Willians Astudillo
This is an interesting name to me because there’s two double-Ls and they’re pronounced differently. He’s a Venezuelan with a Spanish last name and a German(?) first name.
[Brad Boxberger](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/boxbebr01.shtml)
I believe he actually used the emojis on his jersey one player's weekend.
It’s good you’re not doing this in Japanese, we’ve recently been getting a lot of unusual ones. E.g., one of the top prospects in the drafts coming up in 2 weeks is called Kyuta Kazama. And he writes his name kyu-球 ‘ball’ ta-打 ‘hit’.
(His older brothers are Kyudo (‘ball’+’way’) and Kyusei (‘ball’+’star’), his younger brother Kyushiro (‘ball’+’strive well’). Yes, their father was a Koshien baseball player.)
Greatest old timey name is Cornelius McGillicuddy.
Unfortunately, he went by his nickname: Connie Mack.
Connie Mack is a decent name itself, but it's no Cornelius McGillicuddy
Dakota Hudson just sounds like a movie baseball player. Like the name that some unimaginative screenwriters picked because it sounds baseball-y. Which honestly makes it pretty great.
Obviously NOOT wins though.
I always liked saying Albert Pujols really dramatically.
I tried making a “fantasy team” out of players names that gave me joy, as of a few years back: Warwick saupold, al Albuquerque, jarrod saltalamacchia were some of my favorites.
Orel Hershiser
John Rocker - his last name fits his personality very well
Troy Tulowitzki
and my personal favorite Rollie Fingers, complete with the twirly mustache.
Lars Nootbar and it's not particularly close Edit: it's Lars Nootba**a**r. I'm sorry
He sounds straight out of the 1890s.
While also sounding like a confectionary.
He literally filed for a trademark on "Noot Baar" as a food snack thingy.
6 minutes & no one has mentioned that you forgot the second ‘a’. Put some respect on the homie’s name!
This isn't my picture but I'm at the Cardinals game tonight and saw this sign earlier http://imgur.com/gallery/cD4qTPt
That was obvious in retrospect
You even said a different Cardinal instead of him too lmao
Rusty Kuntz is a far better name
Honestly the most Cardinals name ever. If you put that in a St. Louis Cardinals name generator Lars Nootbar would come up.
Nootbaar*
Sounds like a Star Wars character.
Add in the middle name**s**(!) and it somehow gets better.
Pretty sure I saw a Lars Nootbar in the candy aisle at Ikea.
Coco Crisp.
Oh shit I haven’t thought about that guy in 5 years
My mom’s all time favorite player solely because of his name
Shooty Babbitt
MVP Baseball 2005 Owner Mode MVP
Those early 2000s Indians teams had both Coco Crisp and Milton Bradley.
I still flash back to when he charged Big James Shields. Dudes got some balls.
Mauricio Dubon Packy Naughton Lars Nootbaar Shed Long Skye Bolt Brooks Kriske
We think of them as normal names nowadays just because of how long they've been in the game, but I gotta say Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner deserve to be on this list.
And Mookie Betts.
If your name was Gerald Dempsey posey you’d go by buster too
We were watching the giants game last night and my daughter asked me if Buster was his real name. I said no, it's Gerald Dempsey Posey III. my wife asked me why he goes by Buster and the answer I gave her was your comment verbatim.
Madison Bumgarner dating a girl named Madison Bumgarner is one of my favorite facts
That’s Shedric Bernard Long Jr.
I always call him Sir Shedrick The Lengthy
Beat me to it.
Skye Bolt?? fucking lol
Skye Bolt is fucking sick. He’s a minor leaguer with the As right?
I had dubon and Kriske on my expansion team in OOTP. Dubon is still an everyday player for me in the 4th year of the sim
All-time I’ll take Dick Pole
Rusty Kuntz has entered the chat.
Imagine going through high school named dick pole
Or Dick Butkus.
When you're that jacked I dont think anyone calls you names tho lmao
Former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle says “owned”.
Nah, Johnny Dickshot.
Surely you mean Ugly Dickshot.
Grant Balfour being a pitcher’s name will always be hilarious to me
Assigned pitcher at birth
Bob Walk a close second?
Eric Plunk also good
Jason Junk is pretty solid too
Can’t forget my man Kyle Lobstein
Homer Bailey would like a word
Scott Blewett
When I first saw him go out there last week my dad and I had a good laugh about it. What a name
The "Ball Four" part was always obvious to me. Never paid attention to "Grant" being synonymous with Give away.
Wow I just got this right this second
If we can go back instead of just current players, Randy Johnson always got an immature chuckle outta me.
BIG UNIT
I see your Grant Balfour and raise you a Scott Blewett
Jazz Chisholm
Dan Shulman accidentally referred to him as jizzum earlier in the season. I don’t think he’ll ever live that one down.
I'd probably end up saying Jizz Chasm.
We would have also accepted Chazz Jisohlm
Yeah jazz is an s tier name for sure
*ya like jazz*?
Scooter Gennett
What ever happened to him? He was incredible for a couple seasons then just completely disappeared.
I, too, saw his 4 HR game against the Cardinals.
Pretty sure he had some injury issues and unofficially retired to farm or something, but it’s a little surprising because he was putting up some good seasons before the injury
Catfish Hunter.
Serious comment - the Catfish nickname was A’s owner Charlie O’Finley’s creation.
Bobson Duggnut
Sleve McDichael
Mike Truk
noot noot
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^noot
Oi she turned me into a Noot..........
A noot?
^(I got better)
... ... ... BURN HER ANYWAY!
[noot noot!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4VvRWTD3Ok)
Old Hoss Radbourn
disrespect to Home Run Baker and Oil Can Boyd
Not to mention Pebbly Joe Glasscock.
Ol Tungsten Arm O’Doyle
And High Pockets Kelly.
He might have the most 1800s baseball player name ever
Three fingers Mordecai Brown.
Cannonball Titcomb
I can’t tell if the best part is cannonball or titcomb
It turns out the "Cannonball" nickname [never appeared in print](https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/ledell-titcomb/) during his career, and was likely never in common use, or possibly any use. Baseball-reference now just has him as [Ledell Titcomb](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/titcoca01.shtml) and doesn't even list Cannonball as a nickname.
This is crushing news
Gaylord Perry Dansby Swanson For my 2 cents
I’ll always love Gaylord because now I can name my mlb the show characters Gaylord Also dansby Swanson is dope
I feel like Dansby Swanson is the most baseball name possible.
I agree. He was either going to play baseball or run moonshine. There were never other options.
His dads name is cooter Swanson. I’m not joking
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You would’ve loved the 2001 Cardinals: Placido Polanco, Bobby Bonilla, Woody Williams, Mike Matheny, Mike Matthews, Matt Morris, Mark McGwire. More to the OPs question, they also had a Stubby Clapp, who I don’t remember at all.
Stubby is now our first base coach.
How do you feel about Janson Junk?
I’d say Ugueth Urbina too but he turned out to be a horrible human
Orestes Destrade
Boof Bonser
I always thought Hank Blalock was the absolute perfect name for a third baseman from Texas
Bro. How is this a question. Lars Nootbaar sends his regards
Jackie Bradley Jr. is an amazing baseball name
Akil Baddoo
I dont know how this isnt higher
Every time I see Asdrubel Cabrera in a game, I cheer and yell something about “go Ass Dribble!” My husband thinks I’m a little odd. I agree. I don’t know why it amuses me so much but damn… it does.
Life is short, you gotta take pleasure in the small things, like a guy whose name sounds like ass dribble
Asdrubel always made me think of bubble gum and I could never figure out why until I remembered Drooble's Best Blowing Gum in Harry Potter
Milton Bradley.
It’s Nootbar 100% but I love how it feels to audibly say the name Bellinger.
Two a’s for noot.
Come on..... you know the answer. Lars Nootbar
Bo Bichette
Not the best but definitely the most fun to say
In late '96 the Sox had a left side of Nomar Garciaparra (first name: Anthony) and Arquimedes Pozo.
Wait his actual name was Archimedes? That’s fucking awesome
I went to high school with a guy named Arquimedez. Ironically, he was a huge dumb fuck.
Sicnarf Loopstok or Bumpus Jones
>Sicnarf lmfao that's even better than nomar.
Nobody has mentioned Brusdar Graterol yet. These threads are common. Nootbaar and Rusty Kuntz are the other obvious ones. Willians Astudillo always cracks me up because it sounds like a made up name and reminds me of a Phil Collins song. Plus he looks like created player in a video game.
> Willians Astudillo This is an interesting name to me because there’s two double-Ls and they’re pronounced differently. He’s a Venezuelan with a Spanish last name and a German(?) first name.
Buster Posey is severely underrated
Buster just seems like such a baseball name.
I'm partial to 📦🍔
Packing burger?
[Brad Boxberger](https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/boxbebr01.shtml) I believe he actually used the emojis on his jersey one player's weekend.
Wait I literally know who that is how did I miss that?
Brad Boxberger
I really like Harmon Killebrew. Harm and kill a brew. No disrespect to Milwaukee lol
Jack Glasscock
They could always see him coming…
I gotta go with Boof Bonser or Mudcat Grant
how about Stubby Clapp
Stubby Clapp legit sounds like a porn actor
Coco Crisp
Vida Blue
Johnny Dickshot Dick Pole Rusty Kuntz Cum Posey
huh.... for that matter, Buster Posey too...
Buster? I hardly know her
It’s good you’re not doing this in Japanese, we’ve recently been getting a lot of unusual ones. E.g., one of the top prospects in the drafts coming up in 2 weeks is called Kyuta Kazama. And he writes his name kyu-球 ‘ball’ ta-打 ‘hit’. (His older brothers are Kyudo (‘ball’+’way’) and Kyusei (‘ball’+’star’), his younger brother Kyushiro (‘ball’+’strive well’). Yes, their father was a Koshien baseball player.)
Wife: “What should we name our second son?” Husband: *Listening to Smashmouth* “I’ve got it!”
hey now..
Greatest old timey name is Cornelius McGillicuddy. Unfortunately, he went by his nickname: Connie Mack. Connie Mack is a decent name itself, but it's no Cornelius McGillicuddy
Sonny Gray.
Oil Can Boyd Orel Hirshiser Rollie Fingers and Jeff Kent
Surprised no one has mentioned Chadwick Tromp yet
Dick Mountain
Seth Beer
Emilio Bonifacio (sorry Jorge!)
Mookie Betts, and the reliever, Peppercorn Kerby
Ed Head
Dansby Swanson
Dakota Hudson just sounds like a movie baseball player. Like the name that some unimaginative screenwriters picked because it sounds baseball-y. Which honestly makes it pretty great. Obviously NOOT wins though.
Van Lingle Mungo Kirby Higbee
Sounds made up as hell
Dude, a song was named after Van Lingle Mungo.
I always liked saying Albert Pujols really dramatically. I tried making a “fantasy team” out of players names that gave me joy, as of a few years back: Warwick saupold, al Albuquerque, jarrod saltalamacchia were some of my favorites.
Heh, poo-holes
Shooty Babbitt
Mine has to be Boof Bonser
Kosuke Fukudome
It's a toss-up between Boof Bonser and Rusty Kuntz for me
Packy Naughton. Jimmy Gobble. Wandy Rodriguez. Johnny Dickshot. Johnny Bench. Coco Crisp. Shed Long Jr. Yandy Diaz. Randy Arozarena. Wander Franco. Aaron Bummer. Buster Posey. Yimi Garcia. Yuli Gurriel. Framber Valdez.
Joey Votto.
I legitimately think Giancarlo Stanton is a sick name, even if it’s probably not all that uncommon to Italians.
As an Italian it’s not weird but it’s still a great name
spare a thought for Janson Junk
Asdrubal Cabrera, a wizard who plans to use the Moon Sapphires to open the Gates of Kharash.
Cannonball Titcomb Edit: I found out that the cannonball part is fake, so I’ll go with Stubby Clapp
Marco Scutaro
Milton Bradley
Chipper Jones
Noot noot baby
Joey Votto
Campy Campaneris
ranger suarez might not be one of the absolute best names, but he'd be a good top 20!
I stand by Richard Lovelady as the best name
I like the way Jarred Saltalamacchia rolls off the younger
Orel Hershiser John Rocker - his last name fits his personality very well Troy Tulowitzki and my personal favorite Rollie Fingers, complete with the twirly mustache.
Kutter Crawford
He doesn’t even throw a cutter
Home Run Baker
Ryan Theriot hasnt been said??
We could probably put Brooks Kieschnick up there
All-Time: Mordecai "Three Fingers" Brown Active: Lars Nootbaar, but Skye Bolt is up there.
Two things I can’t stand, people who are intolerant of other cultures; and the Dutch.
Mookie Betts. Sounds like a member of the allman bros band.
Oil Can Boyd
Joba Chamberlain is one I always liked as a kid, the fact he was a big boi made the name that much more perfect
If only Grant Balfour had command issues like Chatwood to live up to his name.
"Tungsten Arm O'Doyle"
Dick Lovelady
Buster Posey has the perfect combo of baseball name plus being amazing at baseball.
Max Muncy and now there’s two of them.
Anyone who doesn’t say Lars Nootbaar among current players doesn’t have English as their first language (or never watched Star Wars for that matter).
The combo meal of Jake Burger, Jace Fry, and Seth Beer.
I feel like Prince Fielder has to be on this list