Kevin Dudley

Kevin Dudley
Basic Information
Team	Unlimited Tacos
Former Team(s)	Philly Pies, Charleston Shoe Thieves
Status	Shadowed
Batting
Pitching
Defense
Running
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page
Personal Information
Item	None
Armor	None
Evolution	Base
Pregame Ritual	Transforming
Coffee Style	Macchiato
Blood Type	O No
Fate	83
Soulscream	AOEAAAOEAAAUEAAUUEAAUUIIAAEIIAAEI
Biographical Details
Species	ghost, maybe
Personal Relationships
Marital Status	Widowing
Other Background Information
Favorite Pie	Chess Pie

Kevin Dudley is a pitcher for the Unlimited Tacos and has been with the team since Season 8. Dudley is currently in the Unlimited Tacos' Shadows.

Official League Records

Go Away

Dudley entered the league as a pitcher for the Philly Pies, and was traded to the Charleston Shoe Thieves in exchange for Forrest Bookbaby as a result of the Go Away awarded to the Pies in the Season 3 elections.

Peanut Allergy

On Season 3, Day 57, Dudley's pitching rating was lowered from to after swallowing a stray Peanut and having an allergic reaction.

Soul Swap

At the end of Season 5, the Soul Swap blessing randomized Dudley's pitching stats from to .

Thief in the Night

At the end of Season 8 Dudley was sent to the Unlimited Tacos' Shadows in return for Fitzgerald Wanderlust as a result of the Thief in the Night blessing.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Appearance

Dudley may or may not be the ghost of American frontier soldier and cowboy Buffalo Bill Cody.

History

Controversy and Trade

Following Dudley's peanut reaction, the Pies demoted him to the team water boy. However, due to the nature of his contract he was still required to pitch for the team.

Additionally, Dudley's trade to the Shoe Thieves allegedly stemmed from his Pies teammates being fed up with his spitting habit.

Career with the Shoe Thieves

Upon being traded to the Shoe Thieves, Kevin was surprised to be given an important role after his shaming as the water boy on the Pies. Despite having approximately zero relevant skills to the profession, Kevin was given Forrest Bookbaby's duties as the team's accountant, though instead of financial data, he tallies the number of shoes stolen by the team. Proud to be entrusted with such a critical position, Kevin has embraced these duties with aplomb and gusto, though not with what one would call mathematical precision. After a game in which the team has pilfered more pairs of shoes than can be counted on Kevin's ethereal fingers and toes, he has been known to issue formal memorandums to team manager Cornelius Games stating, "I reckon' we got ourselves a right big heap of shoes tonight, boss." This appears to satisfy Games enough to allow Kevin to continue the job. For his own part, Kevin specializes in stealing boots of all kinds, and his ghostly nature makes him particularly effective at it.

The team, and the team's fans, have embraced Kevin in his role as a member of the rotation. Though on paper his statistics are not significantly better than canine teammate Beasley Gloom, his win record has generally been superior. Kevin attributes this success to incinerated former Shoe Thief, fellow ghost, and pitching coach, Matteo Prestige. "Well Gunther and Beasley are pretty hard fer Coach P to work with, bein' that they don't have thumbs nor real good attention spans. Mr. Games don't need no coaching nohow, and Nega-Snyder don't trust Coach P on account of the one from his reality weren't dead. Says he gives him the willies. Anyhow, I guess that means Coach P has a lot of time to make sure I give it my darnednest, and I ain't gonna let him, Mr. Games, or the Shoe Thieves fans down."

In appreciation of the warm welcome he received from the Shoe Thieves, Kevin has made it his personal mission to ensure that new players feel comfortable on the team. Kevin took it upon himself to find a way to help then-struggling teammate Joe Voorhees recover from a rough reception from both fans and Cornelius Games after his trade from the Moist Talkers for fan favorite Workman Gloom. Kevin is most likely the one who 'acquired' the steel-toed boots from a rare earth metals processing plant that were presented to Joe for going 30 days without a murder. He is also reported to have been heard saying, "You know Joe, I reckon' ice skates are just the knives of the shoe world," a day after which Joe temporarily relinquished his "30 Days Murder Free" badge for unrelated reasons.

Since his addition to the team, Richardson Games has regularly been sighted playing poker and chatting with Kevin before games in which Kevin is not pitching. Richardson frequently appears sporting new boots in post-game interviews. When asked about how he feels about participating in such questionably legal activities, Kevin responded, "What are ya' son, a lawman?"

Sole Swap

At the end of Season 5, Cornelius Games informed the rest of the rotation that they would be joining him on a heist to steal shoes from beyond the grave. Kevin, Gunther, Beasley and Snyder all piled into a submarine and were taken to a sunken city that Games would not identify. In the city, the pitchers aided their leader in searching a mysterious peanut-scented void, retrieving from it five pairs of shoes. Games claimed that these were the shoes of deceased former Shoe Thieves Matteo Prestige, Blankenship Fischer, Atlas Jonbois, Sebastian Townsend, and Morrow Doyle. In a ritual known only as the Sole Swap, Games placed the shoes on each of his pitchers (Beasley receiving two pairs due to having 4 feet and Cornelius believing he did not need the help). Games' assessment turned out to only be partially true. Kevin, Gunther, and Beasley had not previously even been wearing shoes properly (not counting the one Gunther would occasionally wear on his head), which gave all of them better traction on the pitcher's mound. However, the shoes Briggs received turned out to actually have been formerly owned by Forrest Bookbaby. Whether due to being an alternate version of Snyder or for some other reason, Bookbaby's shoes actually diminished Briggs' pitching abilities. While the others each gained insight and ability from the shoes' previous owners, Bookbaby's shoes were incredibly tight on Briggs' feet, irritating and distracting them.