Red Sox MiLB Nicknames Thread

[JM3]

This is the place to either spread existing nicknames for players, or create new ones.

This thread was prompted in part by the conversation earlier about David "Sandman" Sandlin & workshopping a nickname for Nicholas Judice.

But mostly by the realization that Wikelman's nickname is "The Baby Assassin".

View: https://twitter.com/liamskiffington/status/1750878014156456067


I'll choose to read this as him being a baby who does assassinations & not someone who assassinates babies.

Some other nicknames from last year include:

Ceddanne "C Note" Rafaela
Roman "The Empire" Anthony
David "The Blizzard" Hamilton
Robert "The Kwiat Assassin" Kwiatkowski

 

[JM3]

Sandlin actually has his nickname in his Twitter handle...

View: https://twitter.com/Sandman__29/status/1758997681014210920

 

[nighthob]

… the realization that Wikelman's nickname is "The Baby Assassin".

I'll choose to read this as him being a baby who does assassinations & not someone who assassinates babies.

I read it as someone that assassinates MFY hitters.[/quote]

Some other nicknames from last year include:

Ceddanne "C Note" Rafaela
Roman "The Empire" Anthony
David "The Blizzard" Hamilton
Robert "The Kwiat Assassin" Kwiatkowski

In 2025 the Red Sox will officially be Big Anthony & the Imperials.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Is it difficult to assassinate babies?


No. Which is why no one does it. I don’t like this nickname. I also don’t like nicknames that someone inevitably has to grow out of. At 28 years old this will be a silly nickname. At 33 years old, downright dumb.

 

[JM3]

Is it difficult to assassinate babies?


No. Which is why no one does it. I don’t like this nickname. I also don’t like nicknames that someone inevitably has to grow out of. At 28 years old this will be a silly nickname. At 33 years old, downright dumb.

What if he was a time traveling Baby Assassin who only assassinated babies who would turn out to be evil & do unspeakable horrors unto the world? It still might not be challenging, but it could be considered important, world-altering work.

When he ages out of Baby Assassin after his rookie year he could just be The Assassin, or the MFY Assassin, or whatever new type of Assassin is most apropos at the time.

But I'm open to other ideas.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

You pose some interesting ideas. Maybe merge a couple of those and assassinate asshole Yankees as babies? He’d have to be a pre-cog, but we have the technology . . . .

 

[JM3]

Stijn Van Der Schaaf needs a nickname.

View: https://twitter.com/EdHand89/status/1765069516948766814


When I found out the other day that his name was pronounced "Stine" instead of "Steen" I was like hey, like the German word for stone.

So I considered "The Rock", but I think that nickname is taken. So I was like The Dutch Rock? But that was dumb so I was like hey, what's the Dutch word for rock or stone? Apparently the word for both is "Steen" & I just smh.

So I tried to figure out if the Netherlands had a national rock. It does not appear to. It's must common rock is limestone, but I quickly vetoed "Limey Stiney". Then I looked into Dutch rock bands, but The Golden Earring also doesn't work.

Some non-rock-related ideas I've mostly vetoed:

SHAFT (could be construed as mildly inappropriate)

The Clutch Dutch (seems like poor English)

AmsterDAMN (he's not from Amsterdam)

Hoe Dichterb ("The Closer" in Dutch per Google Translate)

Foort Knox (he's from Amersfoort)

Tulips & a Right Arm (a bit esoteric)

Van Gogh Out There And Shut Them Down (tl;dr)

The Windmill Warrior (meh)

The Panoply (g'luck trying to figure out the thought process behind this one)

The Region (a bit easier than the last one but still wtf)

Idk, as you can see I need some assistance.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

The Generator. Next?

 

[Rovin Romine]

All of these guys have excellent names, as is. I mean, if my name was "Wikelman" I'd want to be called "Wikelman" instead of Winkie or whatever sort of forced "awesomeness" someone wanted to foist on me.

Roman Anthony

It should quite obviously be: Antonius.

 

[Rovin Romine]

The Generator. Next?

Yes.

 

[The Gray Eagle]

The Van Der Schaaf Generator wins IMO.
If you do want to go with the "Stein" thing, since he is a pitcher, "Rudi" could be a decent backup nickname:

 

[JM3]

Some high grade intellectualism ITT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator

 

[nayrbrey]

Some high grade intellectualism ITT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator

We’re not just baseball nerds, we’re nerd nerds.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Some high grade intellectualism ITT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_de_Graaff_generator

Someone obviously never went to the Boston Museum of Science as a kid. And as an adult. More than a couple times.

https://www.mos.org/visit/live-presentations/lightning

 

[JM3]

Someone obviously never went to the Boston Museum of Science as a kid. And as an adult. More than a couple times.

https://www.mos.org/visit/live-presentations/lightning

Kid yes, adult no.

You asked for next... how about...Grant Gambrell?

 

[Paveskovich's Pole]

Is it difficult to assassinate babies?


" .... At 28 years old this will be a silly nickname. At 33 years old, downright dumb.

129 year old George Herman Ruth says hi.

 

[The Gray Eagle]

Kid yes, adult no.

You asked for next... how about...Grant Gambrell?

The Gambreller? Does he in fact know when to hold them and when to fold them?

Or maybe...
GAMBLOR!

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

129 year old George Herman Ruth says hi.

So does Young Jeezy. Now in his mid 40s

 

[JM3]

So does Young Jeezy. Now in his mid 40s

Jeezy removed the "Young" long ago.

The stage name many artists start out with may not be the same name they end with, especially if their moniker includes “Lil” or “Young”. Young Jeezy recognized his growth from young Southern rhymer to “grown” rap star and decided to drop the “young.” “It sounds good because when I came in the game that’s who I was and that was my state of mind, but I’m a grown man,” he told RapFix Live back in 2013. “Those zeros get to adding up, you gotta drop the ‘young.'”

https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/jay-z-rapper-name-changes-hyphen-7840929/

Lil Wayne, on the other hand, is still short.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Jeezy removed the "Young" long ago.



https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/jay-z-rapper-name-changes-hyphen-7840929/

Lil Wayne, on the other hand, is still short.

That is my point. And the Baby Assassin will have to do the same. Where is Young MC these days? The Young Rascals became the Rascals. Etc.

 

[JM3]

That is my point. And the Baby Assassin will have to do the same. Where is Young MC these days? The Young Rascals became the Rascals. Etc.

I believe Young MC is standing against a wall somewhere in a nerdy manner.

When Wikelman ages out of Baby Assassin he can just be John.

 

[nighthob]

The Van Der Schaaf Generator wins IMO.

You’re a couple of months late on that.

You asked for next... how about...Grant Gambrell?

Soup

 

[simplicio]

You asked for next... how about...Grant Gambrell?

Easy Gs.

 

[Merkle's Boner]

Kid yes, adult no.

You asked for next... how about...Grant Gambrell?

CAPE.

 

[Paveskovich's Pole]

... Where is Young MC these days? The Young Rascals became the Rascals. Etc.

... This reminded me of Matt Young who lost a complete game no hitter in the first game of a double header at Cleveland in 1992. Roger Clemens gave up two hits in the second game.