During spring training, the two would pass each other in the hallway outside the big-league clubhouse.
“Big Log” one would say, in way of greeting.” (Prounounced with a long o like “loag,” not “log”)
“Biiiiiiig Loooooog,” would come the reply.
Evans says he thinks he started the nickname game, because the 6’4” Evans has always been called “Big Log”: “But then I’m looking up at him, like, finally, there’s another Logan that’s bigger than me. So I hit him with the ‘Big Log.’”
Now both the Logans are reunited again, albeit briefly, as the OG Big Log, Logan Gilbert, is headed for an IL stint after imaging revealed a Grade 1 flexor tendon strain.