Lent is GREAT!
Moving now, from the sublime to the ridiculous, maybe fans of the teams these guys played for can confirm these nicknames which I heard from my good friend, the fundamentally creative, but uncannily accurate, baseball historian Gwyn Pêl:
Dustin Pedroia: Microbe
Alex Rodriguez: Crescent (as in wrench, as in tool)
Jose Altuvé: Genome
CC Sabathia: Yeti