Have you ever watched baseball and heard the play-by-play guy say a player’s name and wonder who the hell he is talking about? It even happens to me and I’m a huge baseball fan.

I know the influx of Latino talent has caused some confusion, but this list doesn’t contain anyone from Latin countries. I focused on players that linguistically, it doesn’t make much sense to pronounce their name ‘correct’.

A few of these players have even played on my favorite team and thought their name was pronounced a lot different than what ‘correct.’

We list ten didn’t baseball players and spell out their pronunciation phonetically. Do you agree with this list?

Paul Maholm (Los Angeles Dodgers) – Paul Ma-hall-um

Chone Figgins (Los Angeles Dodgers) – Shawn Figgins

J.J. Putz (Arizona Diamondbacks) – Jay Jay Puts

Jonathan Schoop (Baltimore Orioles) – Jonathan Scope

Kyle Lohse (Milwaukee Brewers) – Kyle Lowsh

Josh Thole (Toronto Blue Jays) – Josh Toll-y

J.A. Happ (Toronto Blue Jays) – Jay Hap

Philip Humber (Oakland A’s) – Phil-lip Um-ber

Mike Fiers (Milwaukee Brewers) – Mike Fires

Nathan Eovaldi (Miami Marlins) – Nathan E-val-dy

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About the Author…

Bobby Roberts (otherwise known as Sweetbob) is the creator of ‘America’s White Boy’ and contributor at Project Shanks. His writing has been featured on ESPN’s ‘SportsNation’, Sports Illustrated’s Hot Clicks, Guyspeed, and various other sites. You can follow him on Twitter at @Sweetbob.