As you comment, please be respectful of other commenters and other viewpoints. You just putting your nickname on the back is worse than having a bad nickname. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! "Game Ender" — Ender Inciarte, Braves. They called Don Mossi "Ears" because he had big ears, and they called Walt Williams "No Neck" because he didn't have much of a neck. No. It's hard to even imagine. •, Competition, joy and a little pain: Beep Baseball is a world of freedom for blind athletes, By Below are our 15 choices -- but first, some ground rules:1. Cruz responds with sketches of himself as a stick figure holding a bat labeled “Boomstick,” taking Bailey deep. "Boomstick" -- OF Nelson Cruz, Minnesota Twins. The great ones have nicknames, somethin' like Oil Can or Catfish …", Manager (looking ready to retire): "You got three minutes.". Mitch Garver’s nickname, which has popped up on multiple T-shirts around the Twins’ clubhouse, is “Garv Sauce,” though the origin story is fuzzy. Gregory Polanco, Pirates: El CoffeeNo, Polanco is not MLB's official caffeine connossieur. When you talk about the greatest nicknames in baseball history, you are really talking about more than one thing. I believe you can get me through the ni-hiiiiiiiiight. The Judge enters. They called Don Mossi "Ears" because he had big People would sometimes ask Buck O'Neil, the great Negro Leagues player and manager who was Bell's friend, "What does Cool Papa mean?" It originated when Cruz played in Texas but can now be found at Target Field. MINNEAPOLIS -- Spend just a few minutes listening to Minnesota Twins manager Rocco Baldelli talk about his team before and after games and it becomes clear the manager has a nickname for pretty much everyone. What more could you want? And finally, there’s Nelson Cruz … or “Boomstick.”. Unfortunately, for the duration of his 15-year reign in Seattle, the King has never appeared in a postseason game. Get it? This nickname worked much better when Harvey was patrolling the streets of Gotham as a member of the New York Mets. There really is no other explanation for Baez's defensive wizardry. Rickey Henderson, the all-time stolen-base leader (probably forever), was and always will be "The Man of Steal." "Tortuga" -- C/3B Willians Astudillo, Minnesota Twins. Top User Quizzes in Sports. 11. He was born in British Columbia, Canada. Great nicknames. He is still called that to this day. Starting Friday and ending on Sunday, MLB will celebrate the first Players Weekend. "Shark" -- SP Jeff Samardzija, Giants. 1. At 6-foot-4, 235 pounds, Paxton is in fact quite large. Theories pass. It pays tribute to Syndergaard's Scandinavian heritage with a reference to the Norse god of thunder. Not only do they both share extremely similar names, they both mash the baseball like nobody's business. You see, there was a cartoon dog named McGruff who was constantly reminding us to "take a bite out of crime." Max out on squats! 5. He became “La Makina” after his trainer told him his work ethic was like a machine. David Berding-USA TODAY Sports, 2208 Trott Ave. SW / P.O. MLB Players Weekend 2018 begins league-wide on Friday, August 24th and continues through the rest of the weekend on Saturday the 25th, and … A few nicknames were given to players when they were young. Rogers,” last year, has switched to “Lefty Piece.” This stems from the call down to the bullpen where assistant pitching coach Jeremy Hefner is instructed to ‘Just get the lefty piece going,” Rogers said. Twins cut ties with top minor-league team; could St. Paul be on the table? We reserve the right to remove any comment we deem to be defamatory, rude, insulting to others, hateful, off-topic or reckless to the community. The best player ever picked at every spot from 1-30, a clumsy bear who fancied himself a martial arts warrior, In an interview his junior year at Notre Dame, a 2011 comment by then-Indians manager Manny Acta, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. "), but it is Mays' brilliance that infuses it with life. They called Don Mossi "Ears" because he had big ears, and they called Walt Williams "No Neck" because he didn't have. One more for good measure: As a collective, the group, which is on pace to shatter Major League Baseball’s home run record with more than 300, is the “Bomba Squad,” a nickname derived from a quote from Rosario in May.