Time Travel Baseball - Part 2

Finally, I've had a chance to dig a little further into the future of baseball.  I'm referring, more specifically, to the time-traveling baseball team that my descendant is going to found in the 22nd century.  It does a great-great-great grandpa proud...

From Official Website of the All-Time All-Donovans (www5.donovans.com):

C: Jerry Donovan

Scouting: .199/.236/.223 in the Major Leagues.  Jerry Donovan only managed to scrape together 33 hits in his brief 61 game career for the 1906 Phillies, and was therefore no longer among the Major League ranks in 1907 and beyond.  In signing with the All-Time Donovans, Jerry has finally scraped together his second chance after more than a quarter-millennium of inaction.

1B: Fred Donovan
Scouting:  .083/.154/.083 in the Major Leagues.  Though originally a catcher, Fred Donovan is older than Jerry Donovan anyway you slice it (i.e. by date of birth, playing age, condition upon reanimation).  As a result, Fred will be asked to make the transition to first base, both deferring to the younger knees of Jerry and filling a defensive need for the team.  Perhaps it's for the best, as he's likely to take comfort in the fact that his arm should not be a liability.  Fred allowed 5 stolen bases in 7 attempts over his three-game tenure as catcher for the 1895 Cleveland Spiders.  He'll look to get off to a hot start, hoping to break out of his 1-for-13 career slump at the plate.


2B: Donovan Solano
Scouting:  No Major League Experience.  Solano will be facing Major League pitching for the first time, but he carried a  .274/.319/.352 line over his first 4 seasons at Triple-A.  As his slugging percentage indicates, he's unlikely to hit for power (5 HR in 860 AB) unless the Donovans bring along steroid technologies from today back to the 20th century (when testing was far behind our modern HGH concoctions).  Though he spent more time at shortstop, he manned the second base position with a higher fielding percentage in the minor leagues and will therefore be on the right side of the Donovans infield.


3B: Mike Donovan
Scouting: .238/.238/.286 in the Major Leagues.  This will be the third call-up to the Major League level for Mike Donovan, who previously had short stints with the 1904 Cleveland Naps and 1908 New York Highlanders.  Though still unproven, Mike figures to be the All-Time Donovans' best hope for a Gold Glove award, as he never committed an error in his brief career at the hot corner.


SS: Donovan Mitchell
Scouting: No Major League Experience.  Mitchell will fill out the all-rookie middle infield for the Donovans, having been a lifer in the Houston Astros farm system back in the 1990s.  He hung up the cleats after just his first half season at Triple-A, where he batted .282/.342/.437 from the left side of the plate in the Pacific Coast League.  Shortstop was perhaps not Mitchell's best position, but his history as a utility player means he should be ready for the challenge.

The Donovans focused on the front line of defense, building an infield with their first personnel moves.

...For next time, I'll keep my eyes open for any updates on the rest of the roster as it will be built.  Maybe there will be some mention of the press conference foreshadowed at the end of the newspaper article.  I hope they will be able to put this all together, it's far more ambitious than any project I'd try to coordinate.

Factual/statistical information provided by baseball-reference.com

Time Travel Baseball - Part 1

Wow, where do I begin?  You're all going to call me crazy, but I just dug up a great news article from the future that I had to share.  Yes, that future, the one which (to our knowledge) has yet to happen has searchable archival newspaper clippings.  Nothing of great consequence - no war coverage or sports results that would be of economic value, so don't ask - but I found a cool article that essentially proves my great-great-great grandson was (will be?) a big baseball fan just like me.

Have a look at the article:

I KNOW!  I'm going to keep digging, see if I can find out more about how things play out for the Donovans.  My successes are few and far between so far - sometimes searching the right keywords in the right databases is more of an art than a science - but here's another treat to hold you over until I have another big break.

The Donovans logo:

The face on that baseball remind you of anyone?  I must have some scruffy genes to pass on to the coming generations.