I saw this tweet from Jim Steeg yesterday about the only two players in Red Sox history who have all the letters of their team name in their name.
Almost BOSTON @jtkantor Xander Bogaerts is 2nd player in team history w/ letters RED SOX in name Jennings Poindexter played 3 games in '36
— Jim Steeg (@jimsteeg) August 30, 2013
I instantly wanted to know the Padres players who had all six of those special letters in their name. I reached out to TheThinGwynn for help navigating the Baseball-Reference search functionality. I can never get it to work on my own. He supplied me with a list of every Padres player and I searched them.
Of the 860 Padres players I came up with only five players who met the criteria.
Player | Games | From | To |
Pedro Astacio | 12 | 2005 | 2005 |
Dan Spillner | 193 | 1974 | 1978 |
Ed Sprague | 73 | 2000 | 2000 |
Eddie Oropesa | 16 | 2004 | 2004 |
Adam Peterson | 13 | 1991 | 1991 |