Verified MLB Players on Twitter

All 200+ Major League Baseball Tweeps are listed on MLB.com/connect - just choose your team's logo to see the club breakdown. Here is the only official, comprehensive list of all verified authentic Major Leaguer Baseball players on Twitter:

Player Twitter Account Club
Jeremy Affeldt @JeremyAffeldt Giants
Carlos Beltran @carlosbeltran15 Mets
Billy Butler @BillyButlerKC Royals
Coco Crisp @coco_crisp TBD
Carlos Delgado @carlosdelgado21 Mets
Chad Durbin @ShowcaseU Phillies
Curtis Granderson @detroit_tigers Tigers
Jason Grilli @GrillCheese49 TBD
Blake Hawksworth @BlakeHawksworth Cardinals
Dirk Hayhurst @TheGarfoose Blue Jays
Orlando Hudson @orlandohudson Dodgers
Matt Kemp @mattkemp27 Dodgers
Matt LaPorta @Gator4God Indians
Seth McClung @73_MC Brewers
Jamie Moyer @moyerfoundation Phillies
Joe Nathan @JoeNathan36 Twins
David Ortiz @davidortiz Red Sox
Roy Oswalt @royoswalt44net Astros
Ryan Rowland-Smith @hyphen18 Mariners
Joakim Soria @joakimsoria Royals
Nick Swisher @nickswisher Yankees
Mark Teahen @ESPY_TEAHEN White Sox
Rich Thompson @chopper63 Angels
Todd Wellemeyer @todalion Cardinals
C.J. Wilson @str8edgeracer Rangers

Also, the Reds' Chris Dickerson co-founded @weplaygreen.

Tweet @MLB to verify any other potential player accounts. We only list players who (a) tell us it's them and (b) are fine with being listed.

PLAYER MLBLOGS

For the full list of active player MLBlogs, click here and then use the PRO BLOGS dropdown menu and see the list. And be sure to blog along with MLB personalities!

Why an @MLB MLBlog?

As we've said, we created this blog for those times when 140 characters just aren't enough. For those of you wondering how this blog dovetails with the @MLB Twitter account, @fastbreakdgtl tweets about a very interesting piece on that very subject.


Our new @MLB blog

THANKS to all of our fans on Twitter!!!

Just created this blog on MLB.com/blogs because sometimes 140 characters is just not enough. This blog will be used frequently to support our main @MLB account on Twitter. For example, what you see already here: The ONLY official/verified list of MLB players on Twitter; updates on all of our 200+ MLB Tweeps; super followers; the occasional Jack Nicholson shot because you are allowed to freely use AP/Getty images under the umbrella of MLB.com/blogs; the Twitter Giveaway legal rules; and whatever else becomes necessary.

It has been a fast summer of growing on Twitter. Major League Baseball is believed to be the largest single entity on Twitter in terms of multiple accounts; Marvel had about 80. We should be around 300 shortly. According to our contact within Twitter's corporate offices, we have by far more accounts than any other single entity globally, so go by cumulative follower #s if you're counting for MLB vs. anyone else. Go to MLB.com/connect and click your favorite team's logo, and you can see how to connect with your favorite team in many ways. Be sure to join your team's official Facebook page there, or the MLB official Facebook page.

We now have the official MLB Club site's URL name as the Twitter account name in almost every case, with some rare exceptions. Those are in some cases works in progress, and if you go to that Connect page and follow your Twitters, then you will see everything continue to grow in this important aspect of baseball life. Keep following and keep sending us tweets, and keep spreading the word so we can hit a million! We'll keep delivering contests and hopefully some tweets worth seeing. We tend to tweet a lot, so keep that in mind if you have our tweets on a mobile device. These are the big leagues and there is big news all the time!

Meet our 300,000th follower

In case you missed it, we posted this twitpic of lucky 300,000th follower @AndrewGMarks this past week on the @MLB Twitter. He just happened to live in the same general area as our MLB.com HQ in Manhattan, so we invited him on up and gave him a couple of Braves caps, talked some baseball, gave him the nickel tour of our historic building, took the twitpic in our lobby, and then sent him to the showers. He's a good guy so follow him and say hi. Already well on our way to No. 400,000.

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Heeeeere's Jack

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Jack Nicholson with Lorne Michaels at tonight's Yankees home game vs. Rangers. AP Photo just moved this, meaning you're too late if you were going to post a twitpic of Jack for @MLB and win the free Yankees cap offer. And congrats to @amandarykoff for winning the Yankees cap from the MLB.com Shop because she posted a twitpic from the scene of Paul McCartney being recognized on the giant scoreboard there as Yankees Fan of the Game during the seventh inning. That'll work! Congrats, Amanda! You beat all the pro photogs tonight!!!

Official Rules for Twitter Giveaways

Sorry to hit you with the legalese, but you're too big a crowd and we're under orders.

Official Rules for Twitter Giveaways:

Employees, officers, directors, representatives and agents of any MLB entity and each of their respective parents, subsidiaries & affiliated companies and their immediate families and those living in their same household, whether or not related, are not eligible for any @MLB giveaway. @MLB will determine giveaway recipients in its sole and absolute discretion. If you have received an @MLB giveaway in the last 30 days, you're not eligible. If you live more than 100 miles from the ballpark where a game for which tickets are being given away will be played, you are not eligible for that ticket giveaway. If a giveaway recipient is determined to be ineligible, @MLB may, in its sole and absolute discretion, not give away the goods or ticket(s) or may give the goods or ticket(s) to the next eligible follower. You will be required to privately (through Twitter direct message or email) provide your name and address if you are selected as a giveaway recipient. @MLB will not keep or store your information or use it for any purpose other than sending your giveaway item(s) or providing you information on receiving the item(s). Giveaways are subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules or regulations.

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