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Did Grimsley name Chuck Knoblauch?

In the past days, I've read a lot of speculation about this section of

the affidavit:

Some people, including John Tomase at the Boston Herald, have

mentioned Chuck Knoblauch's name as a possibility. At first glance,

Knoblauch's name does fit the space, but I wanted to check out other

possibilities. Instead of simply speculating, I decided to get a bit

more scientific with my investigation. Again, I started this time by

looking at the document itself. Because Times New Roman isn't a fixed

width font, I knew that I couldn't simply find out how many letters

would fit in the spaces. The most precise way that I could think of

uncovering Grimsley's friend is to find out how long (in pixels) each

of his teammates' names would be. To do this, I took a database of

Grimsley's former teammates and had Excel divide each name up letter

by letter. Then, I opened up Photoshop and used a scale to find the

exact width of each letter or character that those names contain--

A-Z, a-z, apostrophe, and period.

A=39 pixels, B=36 pixels, C=37, a=24, b=27, c=24, etc...

I then substituted these width values for each of the characters in

the database...

...and summed the totals.

Next, I used the same process that I used to determine each letter's

width to determine the width of the name in the redacted space. As I

mentioned in my previous post, because the affidavit's text is

justified, I knew that the space between the first and last name would

be approximately the same width as the spaces between other words in

each line. In the first redacted area, the entire name has to be

approximately 414 pixels in length including a 32 pixel space between

the first and last name and a 13 pixel comma.

However, because the affidavit also uses the last name later on in the

paragraph, I could use the same process as I used to figure the total

length in order to discover the width of Grimsley's friend's last

name. The last name, as you can see from this screenshot, is about

228-229 pixels in width.

Now comes the fun part. I filtered my database to find which names

were between 404 and 424 pixels in total width. Then, I filtered these

results to find last names with a width between 225 and 235 pixels.

Doing this returned 2 names:

Candy Maldonado

Chuck Knoblauch

As you can see here, although his name will fit the first space,

Maldonado's name simply won't fit in the second and third spaces. It's

simply too long. To check and ensure that I didn't overlook anyone due

to a lack of precision, I increased the margin of error. I changed the

filter to give me entire names between 400 and 430 pixels in length,

and last names between 220 and 240 pixels in length. This gave me

these five names:

Even with the larger pool of names, you can see from column D that

Strawberry, Cummings, and Wickander all have last names longer than

Maldonado. Although it's still not conclusive evidence, I think it's

pretty safe to say that when the redacted names are made public (and I

do think that they will be), we'll see Knoblauch's name at the top of

page 15.

Again, if anyone wants a copy of the .psd file in order to check this