Nicknames take a player beyond just their job on the field and into a larger world. A nickname is memorable. It’s remarkable. It’s a way to create a new honor outside the formal bounds of the baseball diamond. And baseball has a lot of nicknames, not confined to Red Sox , some are very hard to forget:

Big Papi.

The Freak.

The Splendid Splinter.

Death to Flying Things.

The Password.

The Big Unit.

Country Breakfast.

Pronk.

The Greek God of Walks.

The Muddy Chicken (well, maybe not).

Sam Miller wrote about the 20 rules of baseball nicknames and while there is good stuff there I’m going off script a bit. For Ceddanne Chipper Nicasio Marte Rafaela (yes, he is literally named Chipper but it’s probably too soon to use that nickname again.) the easy thing to do would be turn Rafae

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