Garry “The Secretary of Defense” Maddox
Every Day Eddie Guardado
Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd
Spaceman Bill Lee
Mike “The Human Rain Delay” Hargrove
Jimmy “The Toy Cannon” Wynn
Charlie “Piano Legs” Hickman
Charlie “The Mechanical Man” Gehringer
Good old “Losing Pitcher” Mulcahy, the ultimate Phillie. Since this was the one I came in to name, an amusing stat from his linked Baseball Reference page is in order. In 1938, Mulcahy went 10-20, “led” the league in giving up earned runs, had a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 0.75, and boasted an ERA+ of 87. The Baseball Writers Association of America, obviously no more up to the task than they are today, placed him 25th in voting for NL MVP with three votes (two votes ahead of Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, 11-8 with an ERA+ of 129).
Joakim “The Mexicutioner” Soria. And those he strikes out have been “Mexicuted”. My hispanic roommate is insanely jealous he never thought of it before.
I like some of them too, and I’m not as down on him as some other posters are. But I think his names are a different animal and selfishly I’d prefer this thread not turn into a list of Bermanisms because there are so many, even though some are good.
Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams
Pat “The Bat” Burrell
Shane “Flyin’ Hawaiian” Victorino
Jimmy “J-Roll” Rollins
Ryan “Mad Dog” Madson
Brad “Lights Out” Lidge