List of Purple Row Nicknames for Rockies Players

The following is an alphabetical list of nicknames for past and present Rockies' players on Purple Row. If you are looking for nicknames for players on other teams, such as Jonathan "Anusmouth" Papelbon or Hunter "Chihuahua" Pence, please see The List of Purple Row Nicknames for Opposing Players.


 * Nicknames marked with an asterisk are/were disapproved by a majority of Purple Row commenters and should be used at your own peril.

Nicknames for Rockies Players Currently In The Organization
Nolan Arenado: Lumbernado, Sharknado, Mickey Mouse (coined by Rockies players)

Matt Belisle: Belizzle

Charlie Blackmon: Chuck Nazty (self-named and is his Twitter handle)

Rex Brothers: Sexy Rexy

Jhoulys Chacin: The Machine, Feared Slugger

Tyler Chatwood: Lord Chatwood, (also) Feared Slugger

Jhoulys de la Chatwood: Chacin, Chatwood and Jorge de la Rosa are often combined into an aggregate when they are all pitching well.

Tyler Colvin: Kolvin (due to his high K rate)

Michael Cuddyer:  Cuddy, Magic Mike

Corey Dickerson: #Dickmania (making fun of the extremely over-the-top zeal surrounding Yasiel Puig and #Puigmania), also an appeal to the 12-year-old boy inside all of us. The hashtag at the beginning is required.

Edgmer Escalona: The Edge

Dexter Fowler: The Player or Dexter Flowers  (During a spring training game,  the Padres announcing team could not manage to correctly identlfy Dexter. At various points he was called Dexter Flowers. Rather being bothered with trying to get his apparently difficult name right, Jerry Coleman called him "The Player"); also "Daddy Long Legs" (coined by the inimitable Vin Scully during a Rockies v Dodgers game)

Jeff Francis: The Physicist, The Canadian

Carlos Gonzalez: CarGo (not to be confused with Carlos Gomez, aka Evil CarGo)

Todd Helton: The Toddfather

Johnny Herrera: Scrappy, The Black Bean (used by Rockies), Johnny Sparkplug (only when he's doing well)

Wilton Lopez: Wilting Lopez, Wiltin' Wilton*, FFFFFFFFF*

Jeff Manship: Man, Ship happens, Manship Wrecked, Dudeboat

Juan Nicasio: La Violencia

Jordan Pacheco:  Peeta (due to his striking resemblance to Peeta Mellark in the film "The Hunger Games")

Wilin Rosario: Baby Bull

Josh Rutledge: Rutledgend, Jfoxyrutstud, J-Rut*, Jeff

Yorvit Torrealba: Fistpumpz

Troy Tulowitzki:  Tulo

Nicknames for Former Rockies Players
Josh Fogg: The Dragon Slayer

Brad Hawpe: See Brandon Hawpe

Chris Iannetta: DOOM

Guillermo Moscoso: Mosucko

Eric Young Jr:  EY2, HAVOC!