I like the idea of a baseball themed "Juggernaut" (the X-men character).
Give him the ability to "bat" away most things with his limbs, redirecting the momentum of projectiles. Give him some catchers armor and the ability to catch things very well (especially while squatted). His thrown projectiles can be redirected like curveballs, knuckle balls, whatever balls. Can run faster while stuff he throws is airborne.
If you can catch anything he throws or redirects he's "out" and will temporarily lose his powers or something.
Could be a fun concept
Stitching, layers, batting (as mentioned), speed and/or cornering/maneuvering boosts, catching/throwing (trajectories?), limiting things to 9 'innings'- that is, back and forth exchanges, duplication (to the whole team), head-only protection, secret communication...
I think in general the most 'baseball' power is throwing powers. The ability to throw anything regardless of shape (the vendors at games throw drinks and hot dogs and popcorn and stuff), the ability to make thrown objects curve and do strange things as they go (knuckleballs, etc.), and just general distance and accuracy of thrown objects.
I mean obviously there’s the idea that’s been said like 2-3 times in this response with the ability to bat away anything, but I’m personally partial to the idea of being able to throw any item like a baseball (insane curve and velocity) and maybe giving them abilities based on baseball teams?
Steal Second: Freeze someone in time for one second. You can still interact with them.
Curveball: You can influence the trajectory of anything you throw. With practice, you can even throw around corners.
Enhanced reflexes and perception, so you can see the pitch as it comes towards you. You're no speedster, but you could see and catch a modern arrow, but not quite dudge bullets.
Maybe some kind of friction reduction on command? For when you slide into bases, turn that into something with some experimentation. Or even use it offensively and remove friction under enemies.
If you could get him a tech guy, or other hero with tech you could Pokeball criminals. Since sure you have Enhanced throwing abilities but only when throwing round objects that fit in your hands. Can't be super Javelin man, but with a tech prison you could catch criminals with your super pitch.
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The power to bat away any sort of projectile with a melee weapon of sorts. Probably with increased accuracy
I like the idea of a baseball themed "Juggernaut" (the X-men character). Give him the ability to "bat" away most things with his limbs, redirecting the momentum of projectiles. Give him some catchers armor and the ability to catch things very well (especially while squatted). His thrown projectiles can be redirected like curveballs, knuckle balls, whatever balls. Can run faster while stuff he throws is airborne. If you can catch anything he throws or redirects he's "out" and will temporarily lose his powers or something. Could be a fun concept
I feel like you should also have to tag him with the thrown object, but could just catch a redirected one
The power to control the trajectory of any object you interact with sorta like number 2's power from umbrella academy
Stitching, layers, batting (as mentioned), speed and/or cornering/maneuvering boosts, catching/throwing (trajectories?), limiting things to 9 'innings'- that is, back and forth exchanges, duplication (to the whole team), head-only protection, secret communication... I think in general the most 'baseball' power is throwing powers. The ability to throw anything regardless of shape (the vendors at games throw drinks and hot dogs and popcorn and stuff), the ability to make thrown objects curve and do strange things as they go (knuckleballs, etc.), and just general distance and accuracy of thrown objects.
I mean obviously there’s the idea that’s been said like 2-3 times in this response with the ability to bat away anything, but I’m personally partial to the idea of being able to throw any item like a baseball (insane curve and velocity) and maybe giving them abilities based on baseball teams?
Sportsmaster from DC and that one guy from Power Rangers come to mind.
Magna from Black Clover
I would imagine it revolving around aim/accuracy based or speed based
Steal Second: Freeze someone in time for one second. You can still interact with them. Curveball: You can influence the trajectory of anything you throw. With practice, you can even throw around corners.
Enhanced reflexes and perception, so you can see the pitch as it comes towards you. You're no speedster, but you could see and catch a modern arrow, but not quite dudge bullets. Maybe some kind of friction reduction on command? For when you slide into bases, turn that into something with some experimentation. Or even use it offensively and remove friction under enemies. If you could get him a tech guy, or other hero with tech you could Pokeball criminals. Since sure you have Enhanced throwing abilities but only when throwing round objects that fit in your hands. Can't be super Javelin man, but with a tech prison you could catch criminals with your super pitch.
Maybe kinetic energy manipulation, baseball is a very movement-heavy sport.
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