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A recent essay by Batter's Box's own #2JBrumfield examined arbitration-eligibility news in the world of Major Leage Baseball. That called to mind recent efforts to build teams for our ongoing Baseball's Hall of Names based on player initials ... we've done dozens of such rosters of all types, ranging from G.M. to M.D. and P.R. to B.S. (that latter pairing, some wags would argue, is repetitive). But we've never done one for "R.B." To do so, as always, we first need to set some ground rules ... First and foremost, we will limit the literally hundreds of possible candidates for the team (courtesy, as always, of BaseballReference.com -- which, ironically, is BR rather than RB), by limiting our roster only to players who actually went by a name with the initials RB, so full given names are out. For example, Robert "Bob" Bescher is not a candidate, but Rob Bell is eligible; similarly, Rick Bauer is eligible, but Richard "Dick" Bass, not so...