Who is a Big Assist from Pine Slope?

Japan has sent a lot of excellent baseball players to major league since Hideo Nomo had joined Los Angels in early 90’s. Now outstanding players like Ichiro Suzuki (SEA) as well as Hideki Matsui(NYY) are known by and loved by baseball fans in the U.S.
Although they are very popular and well known, it seems that Japanese names are still pretty hard to be pronounced properly and are very hard to be memorized correctly for western people. I bet that’s why Daisuke Matsuzaka(BOS) was given a nickname “Dice-K “ so that American fans call him easily and memorize his name easily.
But “dice” and “K” are very far from what “Dai-suke” itself means. So I would like to tell all the fans the original meaning of “Daisuke”.
“Dai” means “big” and “Suke”, “assist”. So “Dai-suke” is “a Big Assist”.
A Big Assist! I hope he would be a big assist for Boston.

(ex.)
Matsuzaka = Matsu + Zaka = Pine + Slope
Matsui = Matsu + I = Pine + Spring
Suzuki = Suzu + Ki = Bell + Tree
Hideki = Hide + Ki = Excellent + Pleasure (Matsui of NYY), Excellent + Tree (Okajima of BOS)
Hideo = Hide + o = Outstanding + Guy = Hero (Nomo)