Player's Weekend Nicknames - Cubs

Yesterday I showed off the 5-card Cubs team set and thought it would be fun to have a little guessing game for the rest of the team. I know, I know, I'm several months late with this but I'm away for the weekend so I'm knocking some things out of the draft folder. This will probably only be fun for my Cubs fan readers though.

Let's start with a hard level.

Here are the nicknames of the 25 Cubs participants without their jersey numbers, although a hint would be that they are in jersey number order.


To add another hint, here is the original graphic I found with the jersey numbers:

Knowing the Cubs roster, a lot of these are variations on their real names, which makes it a lot easier.

Still stuck on few? How about a name bank to work with? (With two extra names for the party poopers with no nickname)

Almora, Albert

Arrieta, Jake

Avila, Alex

Baez, Javier

Bryant, Kris

Contreras, Willson

Davis, Wade

Duensing, Brian

Edwards Jr., Carl

Grimm, Justin

Happ, Ian

Hendricks, Kyle

Heyward, Jason

Jay, Jon

Lackey, John

LaStella, Tommy

Lester, Jon

Montgomery, Mike

Quintana, Jose

Rizzo, Anthony

Rondon, Hector

Russell, Addison

Schwarber, Kyle

Strop, Pedro

Uehara, Koji

Wilson, Justin

Zobrist, Ben

And drum roll please..........here is the answer key:

Jon Lester and Tommy LaStella were the non-participants from the name bank, just using their last names.