With so many high profile faces coming to the Boston Red Sox, it seems only fitting that some big time nicknames be assigned. We need to find ones befitting the size of the contracts, power of the bats, and overall exceptional play expected from these guys.
David Ortiz takes the nickname cake with Big Papi. It fits him perfectly. He is a slugger of a DH who has come through time and again in clutch situations with the needed home run jack or sack fly. No Red Sox, or Yankees fan for that matter, can forget the walk off hits he had in the 2004 come-from-behind American League Championship Series.
Big Papi is perfect for Ortiz, so what about incoming transfers Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford? Usually I would hesitate to assign a sweet moniker to a couple of newbies, but these guys have signed contracts bigger than Dustin Pedroia’s ego (and I mean that lovingly Pedey), so you have to figure that they are in a two sox uniform for the long haul.
Without further ado, a list of the Boston Red Sox players and my attempt (I use that term loosely) at their nicknames.