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The All-Baseball-Team Baseball Team
Using MLB rosters (including Negro Leagues ballplayers), I constructed a lineup consisting of baseball players whose names match or come very close to either being spelled or sounding like the nicknames (but not the geographic names) of any of the current 30 MLB teams. The player's qualifying name can be either singular or plural, and may be either a surname or a given name, or even a nickname or abbreviated name, as long as it is the player’s name of record according to Baseball Reference.
Behold my all-baseball-team baseball team! (Ballplayers who have played for namesake teams are in **bold**.)
C: Joe Royal
1B: Rocky Nelson
2B: Lenny Metz
SS: **Rey Ordoñez**
3B: Marlin Carter
OF: **Dave Philley**
OF: **José Cardenal**
OF: **Brewer Hicklen**
SP: **Johnny Podres**
SP: **Red Ames**
RP: **Ángel Moreno**
RP: Ranger Suarez
MGR: Cub Stricker
*How I put together this silly squad:* First off, when faced with several players who shared a qualifying name, I gave preference to players who at any time in their career suited up for their namesake teams. (For tiebreaker's sake, I considered having played for the Devil Rays counting as having played for the current single-named iteration, because these rules are all made up anyway.)
Second, I enacted a one-player-per-team-name rule, for the sake of presenting a diversity of names (otherwise, half my team could have been guys named Rocky and the other half named Red) and to make my goal a tad more challenging. Thus, because my aim was to construct a full and balanced lineup staffed by positions that players actually fielded, an otherwise deserving outfielder such as Rocky Colavito, for example, got passed over for a different and historically less significant Rocky who filled an open position. Similarly, Rey Sánchez's position was usurped by another shortstop representing the Rays' team name who also played for the Rays and was also named Rey but arrived at the team a scant year earlier — so first come, first served for this one case.
Because I limited this, for tidiness's sake, to only the 30 current MLB team names, I extend my apologies to the likes of defunct National, American, and Negro Leagues team namesakes Robin Roberts, Buddy Groom, Sonny Gray, Willard Brown (whom I single out over countless namesake Browns because he once played for the Browns), and — in what I admit is a bit of a stretch but may be my favorite rejected name — Luis Exposito.
Further apologies go out to Daryl Boston, Reggie Cleveland, Tyler Houston/Houston Jiménez, and Claudell Washington, et al., for reasons stated in the first paragraph. I also apologize to onetime Detroit Tigers player Cliff “Tiger” Mapes, as his nickname is not his official Baseball Reference designation.
Finally, close but no cigarillo to Jay Jackson (who once suited up for the Blue Jays), Sam Dodge, Yank Terry, Joey Nation, Ángel Bravo (who qualified for one team and almost a second one), Twink Twining (whose names are appropriately twinned), Eddie Guardado, Joe Astroth, and especially Jhan Mariñez.
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Using MLB rosters (including Negro Leagues ballplayers), I constructed a lineup consisting of baseball players whose names match or come very close to either being spelled or sounding like the nicknames (but not the geographic names) of any of the current 30 MLB teams. The player's qualifying name can be either singular or plural, and may be either a surname or a given name, or even a nickname or abbreviated name, as long as it is the player’s name of record according to Baseball Reference.
Behold my all-baseball-team baseball team! (Ballplayers who have played for namesake teams are in **bold**.)
C: Joe Royal
1B: Rocky Nelson
2B: Lenny Metz
SS: **Rey Ordoñez**
3B: Marlin Carter
OF: **Dave Philley**
OF: **José Cardenal**
OF: **Brewer Hicklen**
SP: **Johnny Podres**
SP: **Red Ames**
RP: **Ángel Moreno**
RP: Ranger Suarez
MGR: Cub Stricker
*How I put together this silly squad:* First off, when faced with several players who shared a qualifying name, I gave preference to players who at any time in their career suited up for their namesake teams. (For tiebreaker's sake, I considered having played for the Devil Rays counting as having played for the current single-named iteration, because these rules are all made up anyway.)
Second, I enacted a one-player-per-team-name rule, for the sake of presenting a diversity of names (otherwise, half my team could have been guys named Rocky and the other half named Red) and to make my goal a tad more challenging. Thus, because my aim was to construct a full and balanced lineup staffed by positions that players actually fielded, an otherwise deserving outfielder such as Rocky Colavito, for example, got passed over for a different and historically less significant Rocky who filled an open position. Similarly, Rey Sánchez's position was usurped by another shortstop representing the Rays' team name who also played for the Rays and was also named Rey but arrived at the team a scant year earlier — so first come, first served for this one case.
Because I limited this, for tidiness's sake, to only the 30 current MLB team names, I extend my apologies to the likes of defunct National, American, and Negro Leagues team namesakes Robin Roberts, Buddy Groom, Sonny Gray, Willard Brown (whom I single out over countless namesake Browns because he once played for the Browns), and — in what I admit is a bit of a stretch but may be my favorite rejected name — Luis Exposito.
Further apologies go out to Daryl Boston, Reggie Cleveland, Tyler Houston/Houston Jiménez, and Claudell Washington, et al., for reasons stated in the first paragraph. I also apologize to onetime Detroit Tigers player Cliff “Tiger” Mapes, as his nickname is not his official Baseball Reference designation.
Finally, close but no cigarillo to Jay Jackson (who once suited up for the Blue Jays), Sam Dodge, Yank Terry, Joey Nation, Ángel Bravo (who qualified for one team and almost a second one), Twink Twining (whose names are appropriately twinned), Eddie Guardado, Joe Astroth, and especially Jhan Mariñez.
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