All the best names in the 2021 Draft

While we may not know how a prospect may develop his changeup or retool a loopy swing, we know when someone has a super fun name to say.

July 11th, 2021

There are a few things teams look for on Draft Day when they pick a player. They want a player who is fast and athletic, and who projects to become even stronger and more dominant as they get older. They want velocity, a whip-quick swing and smooth hands -- to name just a few.

One of the things they don't look for are guys with great names. Fortunately, we're not scouts. So, while we may not know how a prospect may develop his changeup or retool a loopy swing, we know when someone has one heck of a fun name to say. These are the guys we're going to highlight today -- the Sicnarf Loopstocks, Blake Deatherages, the Logan Warmoths of the world.

While we don't know what their futures on the baseball field look like, they're already in the birth certificate Hall of Fame.

Here are the 10 best names from the Top 250 Draft prospects that you should expect to see nabbed in the early rounds. Then be sure to tune in and see who your team picks when the Draft begins on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET.

1. Kumar Rocker (Ranked 6th overall)

One of the top prospects in the game has one of the best names. Doesn't hurt that his name sounds like a high-end brand of rocking chair, too.

2. Maddux Bruns (49th)

Some say there's no such thing as a pitching prospect. But what if that pitching prospect is named after a pitching great?

3. Thatcher Hurd (60th)

This is what you wouldn't want to hear after making fun of England's prime minister in 1980.

4. Gunnar Hoglund (22nd)

We're all living in Hogland, we just don't know it yet.

5. Malakhi Knight (95th)

Forget the upcoming film "The Green Knight" -- this is the only action star I want to see.

6. Max Muncy (38th)

Yes, somehow he also shares a birthday with the other Max Muncy. Maybe they're clones?

7. Gage Jump (43rd)

This is how we should grade high jumps at the Olympics -- by gauges.

8. Harry Ford (13th)

It's upsetting that this wasn't the name of the star of the "Young Adventures of Indiana Jones."

9. Wes Kath (34th)

Just try and say this five times fast.

10. Justice Thompson (119th)

Is this a name or the new show coming to CBS on Friday nights about a sheriff in the Wild West?

While those are some of the best names you might see go early in the Draft, there are thousands more who are eligible to selected -- and that means there are plenty more players with amazing monikers and stupendous sobriquets. Here are the rest of the names we can't wait to see called during the Draft:

Probably has a butler and an old English castle

Everhett Hazelwood

Rigsby Mosley

Brandham Ponce

Cort Castle

August Gray Harrison

Thaddeus Ector

A real sleeper pick

Ryan Sleeper

Wrath of

Alex Kahn

What in the

Sam Hill

Pickles

Tremaine Spears

Jay Dill

Nolan Crisp

emaF fo llaH (Hall of Fame backwards)

Ryan Nolan

It hurts

Wade Strain

Parker Harm

Ryan Och

Ryan Kutt

Kavares Tears

Brant Hurter

Born on a Monday

Kade Grundy

Action heroes

Sean Hard

Allbry Major

Joe Rock

Jonathan Cannon

Stone Churby

Evan Justice

Kole Ramage

Justice Bigbie

James Jett

Dan Bolt

Jack Steele

John Thrasher

Cross Jumper

Great spin instructor

Dawson Sweatt

The strongest

Adonys Javier Herrera

Did these guys play in 1962?

Sal Fusco

Jack Gee

Ray Ray Douglas

Johnny Sage

Tyler Rando

Baseball player or Star Wars character?

Zebulon Vermillion

Sky Jones

Hunter Jump

Hogan Windish

Kishon Frett

Drake Batcho

Shane Clowar

May wake up transformed into an insect

Cullen Kafka

Needs to be picked by one very specific team

Dominick Bucko

Jayden Metz

Baseball names

Gavin Homer

Hayden Leatherwood

Ryan Spikes

Ian Fair

Bayden Root

Ian Leatherman

Kamron Fields

Isn't it ironic

Cody Morrissette

The one, the only

Ledgend Smith

The greatest Bond

Connery Peters

Hey! We're walkin' here!

Connor Shamblin

The Create-A-Player on MLB the Show

Brandon Dufault

Knick, knack, paddy

Nick Zwack

What kind of ham should you bring to Las Vegas?

Kyle Luckhamm

Flimflam

Lane Flamm

Astounding Alliteration

Vytas Valincius

Brandon Birdsell

Dylan Ditzenberger

Spencer Schwellenbach

Gordon Graveffo

Cade Cabbiness

Juan Jaime

Brechtian theatre

Brody Brecht

Live near the water

Dennis Boatman

River Town

Lake Fisher

Dexter Swims

Animal Crossing

Fox Semones

Davis Hare

Whoever Smeltz it, Dealtz it

Jackson Smeltz

Owen Sharts

Aaron Funk

Money, money, money!

Cash Rugely

Gavin Kash

Armani Sanchez

Marc Coffers

Damon Dues

Food

Blake Beers

Jarrod Cande

Max Cioffi

Pico Kohn

Kyle Tako

Brodie Chestnutt

Devin Fry

Snidely Whiplash's real name

Preston Snavely

Just a lot of fun to say

Alonzo Rubalcaba

Keyshawn Askew

Beau Balado

Vojtech Mensik

Mac Hippenhammer

Boyd Vander Kooi

Marius Balandis

Shaddon Peavyhouse

Dayton Dooney

Niko Leontarakis

Damiano Palmegiani

When you want something like Philip Glass, but you don't want to hire Philip Glass

Phillip Glasser

Do those squats

Jake Bunz