I have been struggling with this since the Cubs made their big splash at the trade deadline and Bruce Miles of the Daily Herald was nice enough to get to the bottom of it of for me. When speaking to Nicholas Castellnos, Miles asked him, “Do you prefer ‘Nick’ or ‘Nicholas?'”
“Nick is OK,” the outfielder replied. “Save you some space.”
Thank you. I have preferred calling him the former anyway. Still, anyone who rakes the way Castellanos has since coming over from Detroit should be called anything he wants.