Best MLB Last Names for Scrabble

detroitfan2 · January 29, 2020 2:48PM

Back in the day, my brother and I would have Scrabble battles where you could only spell the last names of MLB players.

Zdeb (Joe) and Quirk (Jamie) were good point getters without needing a ton of letters. What names you got?

maddux69 · January 29, 2020 2:56PM

Rizzuto would rule them all, don't ask Billy Madison to write it in cursive though.

mrpeanut39 · January 29, 2020 4:24PM

Doug Gwosdz

ahopkins · January 29, 2020 4:30PM

Zobrist on a triple word score and add 50 points for using all 7 letters. That 100 points right there.

burghman · January 29, 2020 4:58PM

Quisenberry isn’t bad but you’d need an extra long letter tray... or I guess you could add Quisen in front of an already played “berry”

detroitfan2 · January 29, 2020 5:16PM

@maddux69 said:
Rizzuto would rule them all, don't ask Billy Madison to write it in cursive though.

To be fair, you'd need to use a blank to spell Rizzuto!

detroitfan2 · January 29, 2020 5:16PM

While not exactly high points, at the very end when you are trying to use up your letters, Ott (Ed or Mel) is a good one.

Yosaifweiss · January 29, 2020 10:03PM

Foxx...if no blank, Robidoux (try for a double triple, over 200 points)

UFFDAH · January 30, 2020 4:38AM

Kuntz

ScoobyDoo2 · January 30, 2020 6:03AM

Ichiro Suzuki-sahn

detroitfan2 · January 30, 2020 6:13AM

Kuntz is outstanding! Fox / Foxx are good ones for sure, and Suzuki would get some great points (he wasn't playing yet in the mid 70's when we had our battles).

Kemp (Steve) came to mind this morning for a solid one with minimal letters.

vintagefun · January 30, 2020 4:25PM

Koufax might score ok

GreenSneakers · January 30, 2020 6:46PM

Managers count or just players? If managers, then tough to beat Vedie Himsl to refresh the letters.

Current players, Tommy Pham wouldnt score high but would let you ditch some tiles.

I’ll be thinking about this all night now. Damn it.

psychump · January 30, 2020 7:34PM

Emil Yde. His last name is properly pronounced if you say it backwards.

ahopkins · January 31, 2020 1:46PM

Veryzer.

vintagefun · January 31, 2020 3:47PM

Koufax is 20 points, with no bonus and Kershaw is 17. McCovey is 19.

detroitfan2 · January 31, 2020 7:09PM

@ahopkins said:
Veryzer.

Dang that is a good one given that he was one of my favorite players as a youngster and never thought of him!

Here he is with another good Scrabble Tiger from the 1976 set:

AC000000 · January 31, 2020 10:38PM

Jerry Dybzinski.
Marc Rzepczynski.
Or if you don’t want to give your opponent much to work with:
Ed Ott

BLUEJAYWAY · February 1, 2020 9:12PM

Bobby Shantz.

detroitfan2 · February 2, 2020 11:45AM

Forgot about the 2 fairly easy ones, Richie Zisk and Carlton Fisk.

JBrules · February 2, 2020 2:23PM

Aurelio Rodriguez should do ok.

MikeyP · February 2, 2020 6:59PM

I do not play Scrabble, but I am curious about how well Carl Yastrzemski would score. It just seems like a name that would score a lot of points.

BLUEJAYWAY · February 2, 2020 7:41PM

Zoilo Versalles.

detroitfan2 · February 3, 2020 5:27AM

@MikeyP said:
I do not play Scrabble, but I am curious about how well Carl Yastrzemski would score. It just seems like a name that would score a lot of points.

Yastrzemski has some very high scoring letters (Y, Z, M, K). However, you only have 7 letters to work with plus whatever's already spelled on the board, so several of the more recent names (Rodriguez, Versalles, etc). are, for all intents and purposes, impossible for Scrabble.