Thanks to the signing of Erisbel Arruebarrena and my current obsession with Scrabble through the app, I decided to take a look at the last names of each person on Los Angeles Dodgers' 40-man roster and see who would have the best Scrabble names. I used the "unofficial Scrabble cheat tool" that I do not use when actually playing. I swear.
Remember, this is last-name only.
Pedro Baez - ZA 10 points
Josh Beckett - BECKET 14 points
Chad Billingsley - ILLEGIBLY 15 points
Jose Dominguez -- GIZMO 17 points
Scott Elbert - TREBLE 8 points
Stephen Fife - FIFE, FIEF 10 points
Onelki Garcia - AGARIC 9 points
Yimi Garcia - AGARIC 9 points
Zack Greinke - REEKING 12 points
Javy Guerra - ARGUER 7 points
Dan Haren - HERN, RHEA, HARE, HEAR, HAEN 7 points
JP Howell - WHOLE 11 points
Kenley Jansen - JEANS 12 points
Clayton Kershaw - HAWKERS 17 points
Brandon League - LEAGUE 7 points
Matt Magill - MAILL, GLIM, MAGI 7 points
Paul Maholm - HMM 10 points
Jarret Martin - MARTIN 8 points
Chris Perez - PREZ 15 points
Paco Rodrigiuez - DOZIER 16 points
Seth Rosin - ORNIS 5 points
Hyun-Jin Ryu - No words for Ryu, JINN, HINNY 11 points for Hyun-Jin
Brian Wilson - WINOS 8 points
Chris Withrow - WORTH, WROTH, WHORT, ROWTH, THROW 11 points
Jamey Wright - WRIGHT 13 points
Drew Butera - ARBUTE 8 points
AJ Ellis - LISLE 5 points
Tim Federowicz - FRIZED 19 points
Erisbel Arruebarrena - BARRENER 10 points
Adrian Gonzalez - NOZZLE 24 points
Dee Gordon - DRONGO 8 points
Alex Guerrero - ROUGE 6 points
Hanley Ramirez - MAZIER 17 points
Juan Uribe - RUBE, BRIE, BIER 6 points
Mike Baxter - TAXER, RETAX, EXTRA 12 points
Nick Buss - SUBS 6 points
Carl Crawford - FROWARD, FORWARD 14 points
Andre Ethier - EITHER 9 points
Matt Kemp - KEMP 12 points
Yasiel Puig - PUG, PIG, GIP 6 points
Scott Van Slyke - ALKYNES 14 points