T-Mobile and MLB just announced a partnership that will, amongst many things, place wireless celphones in the dugout for coach/manager communication with each team’s respective bullpen.
Should the voice part of this new system fail, one can only imagine the auto-correct follies that might result from a coach or manager trying to text the bullpen coach to get someone up.
With that in mind, ESPN’s Doug Kern noted to me that there might be some doozies with spellchecked current major league player names.
So, I took anyone who relieved in at least one game in 2012, and put their first and last names through the Microsoft Word 2010 spellchecker. The results below are some of the actual suggestions for “words” the checker didn’t recognize:
| Actual | Suggested |
| Jeremy Accardo | Jeremy Accordion |
| Alfredo Aceves | Alfredo Accedes |
| Jeremy Affeldt | Jeremy Afield |
| Jairo Asencio | Cairo Arsenic |
| Phillippe Aumont | Philippe Amount |
| John Axford | John Afford |
| Collin Balester | Collin Blaster |
| Pedro Beato | Pedro Beano |
| Matt Belisle | Matt Belize |
| Jeff Beliveau | Jeff Believer |
| Jason Berken | Jason Barmen |
| Travis Blackley | Travis Blankley |
| Craig Breslow | Craig Preshow |
| Tyson Brummett | Tyson Grommet |
| Francisley Bueno | Franchise Buenos |
| Drew Butera | Drew Buttery |
| Andrew Carignan | Andrew Cardigan |
| Joel Carreno | Joel Carrion |
| Andrew Cashner | Andrew Cashier |
| Bobby Cassevah | Bobby Cassava |
| Jaye Chapman | Jayvee Chapman |
| Vinnie Chulk | Vinnie Chuck |
| Tony Cingrani | Tony Ingrain |
| Steve Cishek | Steve Cashew |
| Maikel Cleto | Make Cleat |
| Tyler Clippard | Tyler Clipart |
| Robert Coello | Robert Cello |
| Kevin Correia | Kevin Chorea |
| Rhiner Cruz | Rhymer Cruz |
| Justin De Fratus | Justin De Flatus |
| Rubby De La Rosa | Rugby De La Rosa |
| Cole De Vries | Cole De Varies |
| Steve Delabar | Steve Delaware |
| Sam Demel | Sam Dermal |
| Ross Detwiler | Ross Detailer |
| Jake Diekman | Jake Deskman |
| Rafael Dolis | Rafael Dollies |
| Brian Duensing | Brian Defensing |
| Cody Eppley | Cody Appleby |
| Edgmer Escalona | Edgier Escalon |
| Jeurys Familia | Jury’s Familiar |
| Neftali Feliz | Netflix Fleas |
| Charlie Furbush | Charlie Furbish |
| Javy Guerra | Jayvee Guerra |
| Matt Guerrier | Matt Furrier |
| J.A. Happ | J.A. Hippo |
| Deunte Heath | Denude Heath |
| Alex Hinshaw | Alex Handsaw |
| Tommy Hottovy | Tommy Cottony |
| Ryota Igarashi | Riot Igarashi |
| Hisashi Iwakuma | Hibachi Yakima |
| Jair Jurrjens | Jeer Jürgen’s |
| Michael Kirkman | Michael Kikkoman |
| Aaron Laffey | Aaron Daffy |
| Sam LeCure | Sam Lecture |
| Kameron Loe | Cameroon Lobe |
| Jean Machi | Jean Macho |
| Paul Maholm | Paul Manhole |
| Jhan Marinez | Khan Marines |
| Carlos Marmol | Carlos Marmot |
| Nick Maronde | Nick Marooned |
| Vin Mazzaro | Vin Mascara |
| Kris Medlen | Kris Medley |
| Jenrry Mejia | Jewry Mejia |
| Mark Melancon | Mark Melanoma |
| Miles Mikolas | Miles Minoltas |
| Guillermo Moscoso | Guillermo Mucosa |
| Pat Neshek | Pat Noshes |
| Hector Noesi | Hector Nosy |
| Alexi Ogando | Alexi Uganda |
| Logan Ondrusek | Logan Underuse |
| Jonathan Papelbon | Jonathan Paperboy |
| Luis Perdomo | Luis Perform |
| Vinnie Pestano | Vinnie Pesto |
| Stuart Pomeranz | Stuart Operand |
| Esmil Rogers | Smile Rogers |
| Joe Savery | Joe Slavery |
| Michael Schwimer | Michael Schemer |
| Chris Seddon | Chris Sudden |
| Leyson Septimo | Lesson Septum |
| Tony Sipp | Tony Sippy |
| Drew Smyly | Drew Shyly |
| Mickey Storey | Mickey Stormy |
| Michael Stutes | Michael Stunts |
| Koji Uehara | Koji Urethra |
| Jonny Venters | Jonny Veneers |
| Jose Veras | Jose Verbs |
| Carlos Zambrano | Carlos Zambian |
This is wonderful…as usual.
Thanks!