These Are My Favorite MLB Jersey Nicknames

Barry Petchesky|published: Thu 10th August, 09:05 2017

MLB

August 25-27 will officially be known as “Players Weekend” in MLB, but let’s be real—no one will ever think of it as anything besides Nickname Weekend.

Players were allowed to choose the names that will appear on the back of their uniforms that weekend, and let us give credit where credit is due: This is a really cool thing. It’s fun, it’s informal, it allows players’ personalities to shine—it is, in short, so un-MLBlike. I can’t wait until Daddy gets ejected for bumping an ump, and Free Love throws a no-hitter and his jersey is sent to Cooperstown.

All the nicknames haven’t yet been collected in one place, though SI.com has a good gateway to each team’s. But I’ve seen enough to have opinion. Here are a handful of my favorite, and below that, my least favorite nicknames, in no particular order.

The best ones

Francisco Lindor

Devon Travis

Jarrod Dyson (Rhymes with “kumbaya”)

Gary Sanchez

Kyle Seager (This is adorable. But it’s also kind of sad that Corey is just going with [object Object] ?)

David Freese (He has a friend with a dog named Dave, so when they’re hanging out, he’s Davehuman. “It’s funny to, like, five people,” Freese [object Object] .)

Brad Hand

Jay Bruce

Shin-Soo Choo (Joey Votto is “Tokki 2,” and the story behind it is [object Object] .)

Jose Quintana (It’s a little tough to see with the font, but that’s “Q,” the second-coolest letter.)

Xavier Cedeno (The coolest letter)

Didi Gregorius (The Dutch-born Gregorius was actually knighted, receiving the Order of Orange-Nassau along with his teammates for winning the 2011 Baseball World Cup.)