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Why Nolan Arenado isn’t the Sandblaster for Players’ Weekend

Last season saw some funny ones like Seattle’s Kyle Seager wearing “Corey’s brother” and this season has already seen few, Rich Hill of the Los Angeles Dodgers will wear “D. Mountain” and Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Brad Boxberger will go all emojis … “.”

The Colorado Rockies list of nicknames for this year is as follows:

Yency Almonte: “SHOWTIME”
Tyler Anderson: “MR. DUCK”
Nolan Arenado: “NADO”
Chad Bettis: “LETTUCE”
Charlie Blackmon: “CHUCK NAZTY”
David Dahl: “BABY DAHL”
Wade Davis: “WADER”
Ian Desmond: “DEZ”
Mike Dunn: “DUNNER”
Kyle Freeland: “TWO ONE”
Carlos Gonzalez: “CARGO”
Jon Gray: “GRAY WOLF”
Chris Iannetta: “C I”
DJ LeMahieu: “DJ”
German Marquez: “MARQUEE”
Jake McGee: “MACCHEEZ”
Ryan McMahon: “McDOOGLE”
Harrison Musgrave: “MUSKY”
Scott Oberg: “OBIE”
Seunghwan Oh: “uc624uc2b9ud658”
Adam Ottavino: “AO”
Gerardo Parra: “EL YOLO”
Chris Rusin: “RUSS”
Antonio Senzatela: “SENZE”
Bryan Shaw: “GEEK”
Trevor Story: “TREV”
Pat Valaika: “BARRELS”
Tony Wolters: “T-DUB”

Now there were two notable ones for the Rockies for what they aren’t and those are Nolan Arenado and Kyle Freeland.