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Old 08-01-2014, 08:05 PM   #30
Quinton_Upchurch
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Originally Posted by pstrickert View Post
Yes, between the imperfect TTS engine and the nuances in the pronunciation of player names, we've got our work cut out for us.
Indeed. I think we should start a player pronunciation thread somewhere more prominent on the forum in order to ease the task. I'm currently wrestling with Mets' prospect Jack Leathersich. There must be people out there who know whether it is Leather-sick, Leather-seech or some other strange variant.

One problem I expected to run into but haven't yet is players with the same spelling but different pronunciations. Like a player called Gomes is going to come along soon who uses 'Gomez'. I'm guessing there are quite a few examples of this in MLB history though?
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