[OC] What is the average name of an MLB player in 2019?

Have you ever wondered what the average name of an MLB player is? No? Have you ever wished that someone would figure out the exact frequency of every letter at every position of a player’s name? Still no? Well guess what tough guy, I did it anyways.

Average First Name

Rows are what letter

Columns are position of letter

Cell is count

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
a 102 257 132 63 41 11 10 5 1
b 58 3 21 14 20 1 0 0 0
c 83 6 81 30 14 6 4 4 0
d 78 40 41 45 32 16 9 1 0
e 37 121 92 153 126 48 11 1 1
f 21 0 9 6 0 0 0 0 0
g 27 0 11 20 4 5 0 1 0
h 21 53 8 46 17 11 1 1 0
i 10 112 64 97 89 26 11 2 0
j 198 9 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
k 44 1 37 51 11 2 4 0 0
l 39 36 96 56 18 38 17 2 0
m 99 4 48 38 6 2 1 1 0
n 32 25 102 113 79 88 29 17 10
o 7 187 29 34 67 28 25 13 8
p 23 3 0 4 1 0 0 0 0
q 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
r 71 114 122 52 50 63 16 1 0
s 48 5 90 37 53 32 13 5 2
t 82 16 48 91 28 21 6 2 0
u 0 82 22 15 5 2 0 0 0
v 6 4 29 24 1 0 1 0 0
w 25 1 10 13 1 13 3 0 0
x 2 0 7 10 2 1 0 0 0
y 25 68 21 39 47 15 12 1 0
z 11 2 1 2 0 1 1 0 0
# 1149 1149 1122 1053 714 430 174 57 22

Average Last Name

Rows are what letter

Columns are position of letter

Cell is count

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
a 69 250 104 95 107 79 45 23 8 4 1
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[Rosenthal] Name to watch with #Yankees: Miguel Andújar. Rival execs tell me and @ByRobertMurray NYY open to moving him. Would make sense as #Marlins’ ask for Realmuto; MIA wants established young MLB player as headliner. Also would line up with NYY pursuit of Machado. Torres could play SS. twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal…
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[Shea] Alex Dickerson’s nickname for Players’ Weekend is Grandpa. He said that’s what he was called in high school after his surgery. He said he wanted the first four letters of his name, but MLB wouldn’t go for it. #sfgiants twitter.com/JohnSheaHey/s…
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Due to the quarantine all MLB players decide to become SoundCloud rappers. What yould your favorite players Rap Name be?

Player: Willians Astudillo

Rap Name: Lil Tortuga

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Marlins fan here coming in peace. For those of you who play MLB The Show, notice añything new? I submitted a bug report with a list of all the players who have an “ñ” in their name and I guess they listened!
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[Morosi] The @MLB Hot Stove could add another name: RHP Shun Yamaguchi of NPB’s Yomiuri Giants has asked to be posted to the Major Leagues. The Giants — who’ve never posted a player — are considering the possibility, source confirms reports by Kyodo and Nikkan Sports. twitter.com/jonmorosi/sta…
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[baseballreference] Ozzie Albies hit his 41st career HR yesterday. Among players 5'8" or shorter, only one hit more dingers in his first 3 MLB seasons than Albies(worth clicking the link just to see the first place guy's name) twitter.com/baseball_ref/…
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[OT] - Cincinnati Reds player Scooter Gennett’s cleats for MLB players weekend. He will also be wearing the name DAL3 on the back of his jersey. (From his twitter account)
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What's the longest "name chain" of MLB players you can come up with? (E.g. Joe Kelly-Kelly Downs)

Inspired by a couple guys in Angels bullpen, I managed to come up with a 4:

Sean Casey-Casey Blake-Blake Parker-Parker Bridwell

I wonder if anyone can come with a chain of 10 or more.

Rule:

  • Current or former MLB players only.
  • "Registered name" (aka the name that appears on top of basball reference page) only
  • Near misses won't count. Letters should match exactly.
  • A "loop" of names, while I'd like to see if there's any, won't count as an infinite chain. All names have to be unique.

Enjoy, and merry christmas!

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For anyone wanting a Skaggs Jersey. You need to manually enter his name and number. MLB shop already pulled him from the drop down of players.
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Clubhouse store jerseys badly price gouged ($175 for replica Cool Base with player name at STP, $120 on Lids or MLB Shop).
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Is Ryan Howard the Best MLB Player With an Office€™ Character Name? theringer.com/amp/p/7a30e…
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Baseball Trivia - April 10, 2018 - Who are the only two players in the MLB Hall of Fame who have any current or former team name within their name?

For the purposes of this question, we're ignoring spaces, but the name has to be the correct full name. So for example, if someone named DiYAN KEEnum was in the Hall of Fame it wouldn't count because we're missing the S, but if SoleDOD GERShwin was in the Hall of Fame, that would count.

Answer #1
Answer #2

Update: Thanks to /u/aweinschenker for finding a mistake in the question.
Answer #3
Answer #4
Answer #5
Answer #6

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Based on appearance alone, name some non-baseball jobs that MLB players might have if they weren't playing

I promised myself I wouldn't sink to this level during the off-season but here I am :(

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[Kern] Interesting titbit - Isiah Kiner-Falefa's home run on Saturday was first ever in MLB by player with double-barreled last name. Only other players with double barreled last name: Ryan Rowland-Smith and Austin Bibens-Dirkx twitter.com/dakern74/stat…
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MLB Player Name Chains?

I've been interested lately in how long of a player name chain can be created, where the last name of the current player is the same as the first name of the next player. i.e.,

- Doug Henry Aaron Boone Logan Morrison

I'm sure longer ones exist.

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Name something that you dislike of a certain MLB team. (not a player)

I really dislike the Rockies purple dinosaur

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MLB's All-Presidential Team - The best 26-man roster I could make out of players who were drafted from a school named after a president

Using baseball-reference.com I compiled the best players at each position among players who were drafted from schools named after presidents. I included schools like the University of Washington which were indirectly named after presidents as well as schools directly named after them like George Washington University. Don't ask why.

Pos Name School Team(s) Career WAR
C Dale Murphy Woodrow Wilson HS (Portland, OR) ATL, PHI, COL 46.5
1B Fred McGriff Thomas Jefferson HS (Tampa, FL) ATL, TOR, TBR, SDP, CHC, LAD 52.6
2B Bobby Grich Woodrow Wilson HS (Long Beach, CA) LAA, BAL 71.1
SS Robin Yount William H Taft HS (Woodland Hills, CA) MIL 77.3
3B Alex Gordon Nebraska - Lincoln (Lincoln, NE) KCR 36.4
LF Rafael Palmeiro Jackson HS (Miami, FL) TEX, BAL, CHC 71.9
CF Lorenzo Cain Madison County HS (Madison, FL) KCR, MIL 36.9
RF Manny Ramirez George Washington HS (New York, NY) BOS, CLE, LAD, CWS, TBR 69.4
DH/Bench John Olerud Washington State (Pullman, WA) TOR, SEA, NYM, BOS, NYY 58.2
Bench Kent Hrbek Kennedy HS (Bloomington, MN) MIN 38.6
Bench Bill Madlock Eisenhower HS (Decatur, IL) PIT, CHC, SFG, LAD, DET, TEX 38.2
Bench Roy Smalley Jr Nebraska - Lincoln (Lincoln, NE) MIN, NYY, TEX, CWS 27.9
Bench Tino Martinez Jefferson HS (Tampa, FL) NYY, SEA, STL, TBR 29.0
Bench John Stearns Thomas Jefferson HS (Denver, CO) NYM, PHI 19.7
SP Bret Saberhagen Grover Cleveland HS (Reseda, CA) KCR, NYM, BOS, COL 58.8
SP Mark Buehrle Jefferson (Hillsboro, MO) CWS, TOR, MIA 59.2
SP Chuck Finley Louisiana - Monroe (Monroe, LA) LAA, CLE, STL 57.9
SP Kevin Gross Fillmore HS (Fillmore, CA) PHI, LAD, MON, TEX, LAA 27.7
SP Floyd Bannister Kennedy HS (Burien, WA) CWS, SEA, HOU, KCR, TEX, LAA 26.3
RP Paul Quantrill Wisconsin - Madison (Madison, WI) TOR, LAD, NYY, BOS, PHI, SDP, FLA 17.8
RP Mike Henneman Jefferson (Hillsboro, MO) DET, TEX, HOU 12.9
RP Rod Beck Ulysses S Grant HS (Van Nuys, CA) SFG, BOS, CHC, SDP 11.3
RP Todd Jones Jacksonville State (Jacksonville, AL) DET, HOU, COL, FLA, CIN, PHI, BOS, MIN 10.3
RP Tim Burke Nebraska - Lincoln (Lincoln, NE) MON, NYM, NYY 12.1
RP Scot Shields Lincoln Memorial (Harrogate, TN) LAA 12.2
CL Stan Bahnsen Nebraska - Lincoln (Lincoln, NE) MON, NYY, CWS, OAK, PHI, LAA 22.7

It's not unlikely that I made some mistakes/missed some players. Let me know if that's the case and I'll fix it.

Edit: somebody gifted me silver

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[Offseason] Which MLB player has the most Star Wars-y name?

I dunno, Jedd Gyorko just got traded and now this idea is floating around the old noggin'. Any other suggestions?

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TIL there have been 18 MLB players with the name Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
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Hey teens, without cheating, try to name as many active MLB players as you can.

How many can you name? Just want to see how much the average teen Redditors know about baseball players.

Remember, no Googling ;)

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Take that sabermetrics

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https://twitter.com/JuliaMorales/status/1148316568469811200?s=19

https://twitter.com/chasepwilliams/status/1148317402746146816?s=19

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I know we've spoke about our favorite names in the draft. But, what are your favorite names of MLB players?

My vote is for Al Alburquerque

Edit: current player

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