All the best names in the 2021 Draft
There are a few things teams look for on Draft Day when they pick a player. They want a player who is fast and athletic, and who projects to become even stronger and more dominant as they get older. They want velocity, a whip-quick swing and smooth hands -- to name just a few.
One of the things they don't look for are guys with great names. Fortunately, we're not scouts. So, while we may not know how a prospect may develop his changeup or retool a loopy swing, we know when someone has one heck of a fun name to say. These are the guys we're going to highlight today -- the Sicnarf Loopstocks, Blake Deatherages, the Logan Warmoths of the world.
While we don't know what their futures on the baseball field look like, they're already in the birth certificate Hall of Fame.
Here are the 10 best names from the Top 250 Draft prospects that you should expect to see nabbed in the early rounds. Then be sure to tune in and see who your team picks when the Draft begins on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET.
1. Kumar Rocker (Ranked 6th overall)
One of the top prospects in the game has one of the best names. Doesn't hurt that his name sounds like a high-end brand of rocking chair, too.
2. Maddux Bruns (49th)
Some say there's no such thing as a pitching prospect. But what if that pitching prospect is named after a pitching great?
3. Thatcher Hurd (60th)
This is what you wouldn't want to hear after making fun of England's prime minister in 1980.
4. Gunnar Hoglund (22nd)
We're all living in Hogland, we just don't know it yet.
5. Malakhi Knight (95th)
Forget the upcoming film "The Green Knight" -- this is the only action star I want to see.
6. Max Muncy (38th)
Yes, somehow he also shares a birthday with the other Max Muncy. Maybe they're clones?
7. Gage Jump (43rd)
This is how we should grade high jumps at the Olympics -- by gauges.
8. Harry Ford (13th)
It's upsetting that this wasn't the name of the star of the "Young Adventures of Indiana Jones."
9. Wes Kath (34th)
Just try and say this five times fast.
10. Justice Thompson (119th)
Is this a name or the new show coming to CBS on Friday nights about a sheriff in the Wild West?
While those are some of the best names you might see go early in the Draft, there are thousands more who are eligible to selected -- and that means there are plenty more players with amazing monikers and stupendous sobriquets. Here are the rest of the names we can't wait to see called during the Draft:
Probably has a butler and an old English castle
Everhett Hazelwood
Rigsby Mosley
Brandham Ponce
Cort Castle
August Gray Harrison
Thaddeus Ector
A real sleeper pick
Ryan Sleeper
Wrath of
Alex Kahn
What in the
Sam Hill
Pickles
Tremaine Spears
Jay Dill
Nolan Crisp
emaF fo llaH (Hall of Fame backwards)
Ryan Nolan
It hurts
Wade Strain
Parker Harm
Ryan Och
Ryan Kutt
Kavares Tears
Brant Hurter
Born on a Monday
Kade Grundy
Action heroes
Sean Hard
Allbry Major
Joe Rock
Jonathan Cannon
Stone Churby
Evan Justice
Kole Ramage
Justice Bigbie
James Jett
Dan Bolt
Jack Steele
John Thrasher
Cross Jumper
Great spin instructor
Dawson Sweatt
The strongest
Adonys Javier Herrera
Did these guys play in 1962?
Sal Fusco
Jack Gee
Ray Ray Douglas
Johnny Sage
Tyler Rando
Baseball player or Star Wars character?
Zebulon Vermillion
Sky Jones
Hunter Jump
Hogan Windish
Kishon Frett
Drake Batcho
Shane Clowar
May wake up transformed into an insect
Cullen Kafka
Needs to be picked by one very specific team
Dominick Bucko
Jayden Metz
Baseball names
Gavin Homer
Hayden Leatherwood
Ryan Spikes
Ian Fair
Bayden Root
Ian Leatherman
Kamron Fields
Isn't it ironic
Cody Morrissette
The one, the only
Ledgend Smith
The greatest Bond
Connery Peters
Hey! We're walkin' here!
Connor Shamblin
The Create-A-Player on MLB the Show
Brandon Dufault
Knick, knack, paddy
Nick Zwack
What kind of ham should you bring to Las Vegas?
Kyle Luckhamm
Flimflam
Lane Flamm
Astounding Alliteration
Vytas Valincius
Brandon Birdsell
Dylan Ditzenberger
Spencer Schwellenbach
Gordon Graveffo
Cade Cabbiness
Juan Jaime
Brechtian theatre
Brody Brecht
Live near the water
Dennis Boatman
River Town
Lake Fisher
Dexter Swims
Animal Crossing
Fox Semones
Davis Hare
Whoever Smeltz it, Dealtz it
Jackson Smeltz
Owen Sharts
Aaron Funk
Money, money, money!
Cash Rugely
Gavin Kash
Armani Sanchez
Marc Coffers
Damon Dues
Food
Blake Beers
Jarrod Cande
Max Cioffi
Pico Kohn
Kyle Tako
Brodie Chestnutt
Devin Fry
Snidely Whiplash's real name
Preston Snavely
Just a lot of fun to say
Alonzo Rubalcaba
Keyshawn Askew
Beau Balado
Vojtech Mensik
Mac Hippenhammer
Boyd Vander Kooi
Marius Balandis
Shaddon Peavyhouse
Dayton Dooney
Niko Leontarakis
Damiano Palmegiani
When you want something like Philip Glass, but you don't want to hire Philip Glass
Phillip Glasser
Do those squats
Jake Bunz