As we await spring training, which starts with pitchers and catchers reporting next week, let’s get to know the 40-man roster... with their names scrambled in anagrams. I haven’t done this in a couple of years, so there are a lot of new names.
As always, I’ve used the Internet Anagram Server to create these Cubs roster anagrams for all the players on the 40-man roster, except for two that the IAS couldn’t handle; those come instead from here and here. You might recognize a couple of returning anagrams from previous years — that’s because there just aren’t very many for some players.
Now it’s time for you to determine which Cubs player matches each of these anagrams. I’ve added some punctuation in some of them to make them funnier, and mixed them up by putting them in alphabetical order by anagram. I’ve pretty much given away the player anagrammed in the headline to this post by the photo. See if you can figure out the others. If you do figure it out and want to post the answer, please put it behind a spoiler bar in the comments so that others can play.
A Bald Zealotry
A Hip Pan
A Jive Zebra
A Slim Cell
Artsy Brink
Avoid Debt
Bent Attorney
Biased Running
Bronze Bits
Cane’s Saddle Oil
Connor’s Stairwell
Dinky Hecklers
Dismal Pollen
Gimme Monkey Rot
He’s Eve’s Tick
Honor Zany Zit
I, Tuneless Jet
J.R. Draws Cradle
Jan’s Equation
Jar Armor Ballet
Lanky Rye
Legman Drank Veal
Loner’s Jet
Mall Echoes
Major Swooned
Mazurka’s Gin
Narcotic Trivia
Onward, Mr. Boron
Pod Reports
Rob Drank Zen Lint
Sly Hebrew Rack
Snowy Jar Head
Ten Hens Jog
Today’s Rival
U.S. Hard Ivy
Unadorned Dour Jew
Wealthy Doctor
Wrack, I Won
Yo! Iron Radars