If All “Initialed” Players went by their Given Names

Yankees catching prospect J.R. Murphy has informed the club he wants to be known by his full given name, John Ryan Murphy. This got the VORG wondering about the given names of other “initialed” players, and how long their names would be if they went by their full given names (we’re excluding all hyphens, periods and apostrophes in the calculations). A few of these guys would exceed the name length record of 20, but then we’d have to consider all players middle names too (perhaps an analysis for another day).

Anyway, here’s the list (playing name from the Lahman Baseball Database):