Nagomi Mcdaniel

Nagomi Mcdaniel
Mcdaniel as of Season 6, by @Fancymancer
Basic Information
Team	Breckenridge Jazz Hands
Former Team(s)	Hawaii Fridays, Hades Tigers, Baltimore Crabs
Status	Active
Batting
Pitching
Defense
Running
Personal Information
Item	None
Armor	None
Evolution	Base
Pregame Ritual	Cursing the sun
Coffee Style	Americano
Blood Type	Basic
Fate	34
Soulscream	XIAIIEIAEHIXIAIIEIAEHIXIAIIEIAEHIXIAIIEIAEHI
Biographical Details
Pronouns	She/Her or They/Them

Nagomi Mcdaniel is a lineup player for the Breckenridge Jazz Hands. Mcdaniel has been with the team since the Season 5 Elections, replacing Holden Stanton. Mcdaniel originally played for the Hades Tigers during Season 1, until she was traded to the Hawaii Fridays for Nolanestophia Patterson. During Season 3, she was traded twice in a row, once to the Jazz Hands in exchange for Bevan Underbuck, and then to the Baltimore Crabs in exchange for Stanton. Mcdaniel is the player who has experienced the most trades, at four.

As of Season 6, Nagomi Mcdaniel is the best player in the entire league, and the only player with a six star rating.

Official League Records

Debut

Mcdaniel joined the league in Season 1, playing for the Hades Tigers.

Mystery Defection

At the end of Season 1, Umpire Chaff announced two more "mystery blessings" that "happened at the same time as the regular election but were not officially part of said election." This caused Mcdaniel to defect from the Hades Tigers to the Hawaii Fridays, in exchange for Nolanestophia Patterson. In words of Blaseball officials, "There is still no clear answer for why this happened."

Peanut Reaction

On Season 3 Day 34, McDaniel swallowed a peanut and experienced a yummy reaction, increasing Mcdaniel's batting stats to .

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 Fridays to the Jazz Hands for Underbuck via the Highway Robbery blessing, then immediately traded to the Crabs for Stanton via the Headhunter blessing. 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.

Season 5 Elections

The Season 5 Elections opened with the Crabs receiving the Zombies, Run! Presents Horde Hallucinations, Rollback Netcode, and Falling Stars blessings, dramatically increasing McDaniel's ratings until they were as high as six full stars. Mcdaniel was then traded back to the Jazz Hands, again for Stanton, via the Seduction blessing.

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

History

Early Life and Career

Mcdaniel was born and raised in Hawaii by a Scottish mother and a Japanese father. In high school she had a romance with a classmate, the girl who would become the mother of Fridays player York Silk. Rekindling this romance after they had both graduated led to Mcdaniel recruiting Silk to the Fridays.

Despite recruiting Silk to the Fridays, during Season 1 Mcdaniel played for the Tigers, which some Blaseball fans have suggested had something to do with paying off an old debt. They transferred to their home state team under mysterious circumstances after Season 1.

An avid sword practitioner and collector, Mcdaniel has been known to forego her bat in place of a shinai or mighty claymore.

When Mcdaniel ate a stray peanut in Season 3, the protein burst focused their mind and abilities. Since then they have been regarded as one of the best hitters in the league, and have only improved with time.

Baltimore Crabs Transfer

Mcdaniel was initially due to be traded to the Jazz Hands after the Season 3 election. While on the way to Breckenridge, however, her transport was intercepted by servants of the Olde One, and she found herself playing for the Crabs.

No one has ever suggested that Baltimore runs on island time, and suffice it to say, Mcdaniel found themself confused by the strange appearances and origins of their new teammates. In their search for resolution to the storm within them, Mcdaniel took it upon themself to visit the Olde One. They quickly acquired a mech suit (The Cybernetic Limb Augmentation Wearall) to make the perilous journey to the depths of Old Bay.

Mcdaniel quickly arrived at the Olde One's side, and confessed her doubts about her strange new home and bewildering teammates. The Mother Crab offered a simple solution: with a single snip of it’s tender claws, the Mother Crab carcinized Nagomi Mcdaniel.

Rumors abounded after Mcdaniel's carcinization. The Baltimore Slun reported that Mcdaniel was now a headless hitter, known in legend as a Coliunn Gun Cheann. The report claimed that Mcdaniel affixed their still-living head atop their neck with a ribbon; however, they have been known to attend practice games without it, and their skills were completely unaffected. Splorts Bleakly thus disputed these reports, suggesting that McDaniel's head was still affixed to their body. Instead, Bleakly claimed, their head had in fact begun to fuse with their torso, which was now encased in a carapace and more closely resembled a crab's thorax. Eye witness accounts both support and refute these reports. The confusion is believed to be part of the Deep One's design.

Further complicating the matter, some rumours suggest Mcdaniel’s new form is the only the beginning of the Mother Crab's carcinization process. The subject of her final form has thus become a common conversation topic within Baltimore, albeit often discreetly. Unsourced and unverified claims suggest she may become 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 high double of Mcdaniel will grow out of her neck and pilot her former body like a machine. These claims, though widely considered fantastic, cannot be disproven at this time.

During their time with the Crabs, Mcdaniel took the field clad in their Wearall and, as they described it, wielding "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.

Gallery

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  Season 3 Mcdaniel, by @qwoyle

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  Season 4 Mcdaniel, by @system_dice

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  Season 6 Mcdaniel showing the effects of carcinization, by @Fancymancer

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