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February 28, 2008

Great names for pitchers

Filed under: Uncategorized — Andy @ 3:55 pm

In today’s spring training debut game for the Phillies, they pitched two guys with great names for pitchers:

1. Lincoln Holdzkom, whom I assume specializes in holds

2. Joshua Outman, whom I assume just gets people out.

Thanks to my friend Eric for pointing this out.

8 Comments »

  1. Scott Pitcher was a minor league pitcher, but Jake Thrower played the infield.

    Comment by Raphy — February 28, 2008 @ 7:37 pm

  2. Bob Walk’s control was decent, though he did led the league in wild pitches once.

    Bruce Hitt gave up too many in his short stint.

    Vic Power didn’t have much, especially for a 1B.

    Johnny Bench was in the starting lineup as much as possible.

    Rusty Kuntz liked…um…ahem.

    Comment by Johnny Twisto — February 28, 2008 @ 11:05 pm

  3. Rip Repulski was actually quite handsome.

    Comment by vonhayes — February 29, 2008 @ 1:44 pm

  4. And he could “rip” a little, with 4 seasons better than 100 OPS+

    Comment by Andy — February 29, 2008 @ 2:05 pm

  5. how about pitchers Mel Harder, Neal Heaton (the heat is on!), Belve Bean, and Paul Swingle?

    Comment by kingturtle — March 1, 2008 @ 8:05 am

  6. Remember these guys. James Slurve, Frank Splitfinger, Henry Gyro, Chief Johnnie Sidearm, Kory Kork.

    Comment by John C — March 3, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

  7. John, you have a wonderful imagination.

    Comment by Raphy — March 3, 2008 @ 4:48 pm

  8. Can’t believe we all forgot the classic Grant Balfour.

    Comment by Johnny Twisto — March 4, 2008 @ 7:25 pm

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