Nagomi Mcdaniel

Nagomi Mcdaniel is a lineup player for the Baltimore Crabs. Mcdaniel has been with the team since the Season 3 election results, when Mcdaniel was traded twice in a row via two blessings that targeted the "best player" in the league/subleague. Mcdaniel originally played for the Hades Tigers during Season 1, until she was traded via the first ever mystery blessing. Mcdaniel is the player who has experienced the most trades, at three.

As of Season 4, Nagomi Mcdaniel is known as one of the Crabs' best hitters, as well as one of the best players in the Evil League.

Official League Records

Mystery Defection

After the Season 1 election results, the umpire ump_chaff announced two more "mystery blessings" that "happened at the same time as the regular election but were not officially part of said election." The umpire then stated, "I've added these transactions to the site as public knowledge." It was at that time that Mcdaniel defected from the Hades Tigers to the Hawaii Fridays. In words of Blaseball officials, "There is still no clear answer for why this happened."

Peanut Reaction

In Day 34 of Season 3, McDaniel swallowed a peanut and experienced a yummy reaction, increasing Mcdaniel's rating to five stars.

Notable At-Bats

On Season 3, Day 73, McDaniel hit the game winning home run at the bottom of the 10th against the Kansas City Breath Mints, breaking the standing tie for 6th place in the Good League.

Double Trade

At the Season 3 election results, Mcdaniel was traded from the Hawaii Fridays to the Breckenridge Jazz Hands for Bevan Underbuck via the Highway Robbery blessing, then immediately traded via the Headhunter decree to the Baltimore Crabs for Holden Stanton. The first blessing targets "the best player in the league," and the second blessing targets "the best hitter in your subleague," proving that Mcdaniel is an exceptionally valuable player.

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Early Life and Career

Mcdaniel was born and raised in Hawaii, born to a Scottish mother and a Japanese father. In highschool she had a romance with the mother Hawaii Fridays player York Silk. Rekindling this romance as an adult led to her recruiting Silk to the Fridays.

Despite this during Season 1 Mcdaniel played for the Hades Tigers, which some Blaseball fans have suggested had to with paying off an old debt. She transferred to her home state team under mysterious circumstances after Season 1.

An avid sword practitioner and collector she has been known to forego her bat in place of kendo sticks or a mighty claymore.

The protein burst from her peanut ingestion in Season 3 focused her mind and abilities and since that time she has been regarded as one of the best hitters in the league.

Baltimore Crabs Transfer

Mcdaniel was initially set to be traded to the Breckenridge Jazz Hands after the Season 3 election however her transportation to Beckenridge was intercepted by servants of the Olde One and she found herself playing for the Baltimore Crabs.

No one has ever suggested that Baltimore runs on island time and Mcdaniel found herself confused by the strange appearances and origins of her new teammates. Mcdaniel took it upon herself to visit the Olde One, acquiring a mech suit (The Cybernetic Limb Augmentation Wearall) to make a perilous journey to the depths of Old Bay.

Mcdaniel confessed her doubts about her strange new home and bewildering teammates. The Mother Crab offered a simple solution and with a single snip of it’s tender claws the Mother Crab carcinized Nagomi Mcdaniel.

The Baltimore Slun reported that Mcdaniel was now a Coliunn Gun Cheann, a headless hitter and still the best in the league. The report said that sometimes Mcdaniel has affixed her still living head atop her neck with a ribbon however she has been known to attend practice games without it, her skills completely unaffected. Splorts Bleakly disputed these reports; suggesting that McDaniel's head was still affixed to her body and in fact had begun to fuse with her thorax which was now encased in a cosy carapace. Eye witness accounts have somehow confirmed both reports and none at all, though this is likely all part of the Deep One's design.

Some rumours suggest Mcdaniel’s new form is the only the beginning of the Mother Crabs carcinization process. It is common to hear whispers of Baltimore streets over what Mcdaniel’s final form could be; a centaur like creature with a giant crab in place of legs, a ten foot tall red cap with her hands replaced by iron claws and her blood replaced with Old Bay Seasoning, or perhaps a five inch double of Nagomi Mcdaniel will grow out of her neck and pilot the full sized body like a machine. Only time will tell.

For now Nagomi Mcdaniel will take the field for the Crabs, clad in her mech suit, armed with a claymore and a new found inhumanity.

In Literature

Crabs Poet Laureate Runolfio Peeper wrote the following verse which appeared in the Baltimore Slun shortly before season 4:

Nagomi’s travelled o’er the earth

The journey started out of hell

Returned to islands of her birth

And for a Friday spent a spell

But sad to say, she could not stay

The Blaseball Gods (those wicked frauds)

Did her betray, sent her away

Based on her squad’s poor gambling odds

And so she flew to Breckinridge

But hardly settled in that place

She dove from Royal Gorge’s bridge

And there she found a Crab’s embrace.

Once in the deep Crabitat keep

The Olde One spread its claws and led

A stunning evolution’s leap.

Now her humanity all shed,

She’ll lead the team to get ahead.

Trivia

Nagomi's favorite radio station is KZOO
Nagomi's favorite anime is Bleach, but not after the Soul Society arc.