The Final Score

It's garbage day - in more ways than one.

The trash collectors helped Chicago Norm wake up extra early, leaving him lots of time to waste looking up dumb things on the web.

The Reds called up infielder Jolbert Cabrera from Louisville the other day which helped Cabrera move into a tie with Johnson as the most-common name in the majors untl the Indians sent Asdrubal Cabrera to the minors, putting the Johnsons back in the lead.

For a second, there were six Cabreras on current MLB 25-man rosters: Daniel, Orioles P; Miguel, Tigers 1B; Asdrubal, Indians 2B and the hands-down winner of the name I'd most like to hear Bob Sheppard to announce upon his return, even though Cleveland has already come and gone; Jolbert, Reds 3B; Orlando, Chisox SS who enjoys calling the press box to challenge any official scorer who gives him an error; and of course NY's own Melky.

The six Johnsons are The Big Unit; Jim, Orioles P; Tyler, Cardinals P; Nick, Nats 1B; Kelly, Braves 2B; and Reed, Cubs P. Tyler is currently on the DL.

Tied for third are Rodriguez and Jones with five each.

In case you're wondering, the most-common name ever in baseball is easily Smith. I'm too lazy to count them, but there have been more than 150 in major league history. Johnson and Jones would be jockeying for the runner-up position.

Wow, I've probably wasted an hour on this. Thank goodness I'll be away for a couple of weeks and Jim and Anthony can have their blog back.
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Thanks to Anthony for pointing out that Asdrubal was sent down Monday and forcing me to update this entry. I refuse to do this again if two guys named Rodriguez get called up in the next few minutes.