Rougned Odor’s brother Rougned Odor signs with Rangers
You know how the old saying goes: Two Rougned Odors are better than one. What? That’s not a saying?
Well, it ought to be one in Arlington soon, because the Texas Rangers just signed the younger brother of their 21-year-old second baseman Rougned Odor. And get this, his name is also Rougned Odor.
He’s 17 and, like big bro, is a middle infielder. He’s expected to begin playing in the Venezuela summer league, while the older Odor hopes to be the starting second baseman for the Rangers this year after playing 114 games as a rookie in 2014.
The name Rougned Odor (pronounced ROOG-ned o-DOOR) is great enough as it is, but the fact that are two of them and they’re playing on the same team is just beautiful. In fact, it’s pretty much the best baseball name news since we found out Madison Bumgarner dated Madison Bumgarner.
We can only hope that one day the Rangers will be able to sub in Rougned Odor for Rougned Odor. Or turn an Odor-Odor-3 double play. There is a third Odor in baseball too. Their uncle Rouglas Jose Odor is a long-time minor-league hitting coach with the Cleveland Indians. And as The Classical noted last year, there are also multiple Rouglas Odors:
Uncle Rouglas, for instance, just completed his 26th season with the Indians organization. There’s older cousin Rouglas who once walked on to West Virginia’s football team, then did the same thing with Fordham’s. There’s also younger cousin Rouglas, a promising high school baseball player in Florida.
As far as we know, none of the Odors stink.
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