Schu should be listed as Infield, not Outfield…

add LaRue ManChu…

Pinata – Joe-L (it’s only applicable when read however)

Albert – The Mang, El Hombre

Perez – Young Pitcher, YP

Barton – Crabman

LaRue – Pornstache

And I can’t think of Welley’s self given nickname…..

but they never caught on the following:

Wainman
Ludstick
And
His Eminence

Is Pornstache

perez, the prez
skippy, scrappy
motte, just plain sauceman
ludwick, the luddite
barton, crabman

Glaus could be “Andre the Giant” and C. Duncan could be Dun-K

I also feel strongly about the nicknames, especially as a part of VEB culture. I made a FanShot of this very list not too long ago, but this is a far more comprehensive listing. And, hey, I finally “got it” as to why people were calling Motte “Applesauce,” so now I feel like a little less of an idiot!

I’ve added everyone else I could think of that has a nickname (Ryan, Rasmus, DeWitt, and more), as well as a section for great Cardinal nicknames of recent and historical lore — I didn’t give that section much thought, but I’m sure it could go on forever. Oh, and a list of people who might need nicknames soon — we need to brainstorm some monikers for Franklin, Kinney, Miller, and others!

Yeah, I take this stuff too seriously. But, come on, who wants to actually call players by their real names? Except Pujols — he shall forever be simply “Albert” to me. If I’ve forgotten anything, feel free to add on.

THE ROTATION

Wainwright - Waino, Wagonmaker, AW, A.D.A.M.
Carpenter - Carp
Pineiro - Pinata, Joe-L,
Wellemeyer - The Colonel, Tadallion
Lohse - K-Lo, Lohsey

THE BULLPEN

Motte - Applesauce, Sauceman
Perez - El Toro, Young Pitcher (YP), The Prez
Thompson - Wonderbrad, Puppy-Kicker, Babyface
McClellan - K-Mac
Franklin - Franklinstein

THE INFIELD

Molina - Yadi
LaRue- Pornstar, Pornstache, LaRue ManChu
Pujols - Sir/Prince/King Albert, The Mang, El Hombre
K. Greene – Spicoli, Khalilbot
Glaus - Santa (Glaus)
Ryan - Boog
Wallace - Walrus, Brett the Bat

THE OUTFIELD

Duncan - Lil Dunc, Dunc
Ludwick - [Word]wick, Luddite, Luddy
Schumaker - Skippy, Skippy Two Shoes, Schu, Cobbler
Ankiel - Ank, The Natural
Mather - Joey Bombs
Barton - Crabman, The Astronaut
Stavinoha - Big Grit
Rasmus - Razzle, Raz

THE BRAINTRUST

Mozeliak - Mo
LaRussa - Don Tony, TLR
Duncan - GrimFace, Papa Dunc
Oquendo - The Secret Weapon
DeWitt - DeWallet
Other - LaDunc

NOTABLE FORMER CARDINAL NICKNAMES

McGwire - Big Mac
Hornsby - The Rajah
Gibson - Gibby, Hoot
Musial - Stan the Man
O. Smith- The Wizard
Slaughter - Country
Miles - Grit
Morris - Matty Mo
Edmonds - J-Ed, Jimmy Ballgame, Hollywood, Edmundo

Players that might make the team and thus require a new nickname of their own: Kinney, Freese, Thurston, Miller, Boggs, Manning, Ring, Barden, T. Greene, Hoffpauir, Craig.

I sometimes think of Jeff Luhnow as Jeffro Tull—not because he rocks the flute so hard, but because he parlayed enlightenment baseball thinking into helping to revolutionize the farm system. Perhaps a catchier nickname would be “Who-now?” since he’s so incognito compared to the rest of the “brain trust”.

I’m behind the times, I thought Ankiel was still Hobbs.

for motte….cause he’s got a fast pitch…

for the o-dog and we don’t have to come up with another nickname for scrappy

Anyone got any nicknames for Freese? He’ll probably make the ML roster outta ST, so he should be given his right of passage.

Which all good bureaucrats know is the best kind correct, John said in a P-D chat he preferred the more formal moniker Mr. Mo.

One of my favorites

joey “the beav” mather