 Item number SCP-2272 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures Foundation contacts within Major League Baseball will work to replace the Pensacola Blue Wahoo's General Manager with Agent Rob Potshdom of Local Mobile Task Force 352 Dalit Dixieland Nightmare Magic Upon appointment as General Manager, Agent Potshdom will trade Ella's Candestota to a Foundation-controlled Summer League team in St. Petersburg, Florida, at which point containment procedures will be further revised. Following Incident 2272 Domino, see Addendum 2 below, SCP-2272 is to be monitored for anomalous activity outside its known effects, and officials in the Cincinnati Reds franchise will be advised to retain Ella's Candestota at the AA level or below. At least one member of local mobile task forces in the region of Pensacola Blue Wahoo's away games at which Ella's Candestota is scheduled to start shall attend. Regional command will revise containment procedures if new information or activity is demonstrated. Description SCP-2272 is a phenomenon currently affecting the AA Minor League Baseball team known as the Pensacola Blue Wahoo's. The phenomenon manifests as a player to not exist, Blue Wahoo starting pitcher Ella's Candestota, appearing in game records, statistical compilations, and in memories of Blue Wahoo games since mid-2000s. All attendees of Blue Wahoo games in which Candestota is before it to play experience an apparent collective visual hallucination of Ella's Candestota pitching, batting and building, and a baseball game proceeding as normal. This effect also applies to visual recordings, photographs, or audio recordings of Blue Wahoo games. See Addendum 1 below for attempts at computer analysis of purported photographs of Candestota. Double-blind analysis of aerial sonar readings from Vince J. Webb's senior community Maritime Park during a game in which Candestota was purported to pitch confirmed that no being or object existed in this space in person observers or observers of photographs and videos suggest. In addition, despite audio-visual recordings indicating baseballs being hit, thrown and otherwise manipulated, sonar tracking was unable to verify the objective presence of a baseball on plays in which Candestota was a factor. When Candestota is not on the field, no anomalous effects are indicated. Ella's Candestota, according to scouts with the Cincinnati Reds organization and his listing on the Blue Wahoo's website, attended Enroy High School in Utica, W.O. No memories, recordings, or statistics of any baseball performances by the player exist prior to his signing with the Blue Wahoo's in 2001. Addendum 1, Analysis of Images Multiple images affected by SCP-2272 were passed to a Foundation-developed program which subjects an image to a number of four-year transforms and convolutions to obscure the resulting output from human recognition while simultaneously analyzing its structure and providing a summary of its contents by statistical analysis. An example report, SCP-2272-IMG-310 Date, July 1, 2000 Location, Sporting Event at Baseball Stadium, 99% certainty Type, Full Color Photograph, Subject The image contains one adult person standing in foreground and 70-80 adult person seated in the background. With 100% certainty, the persons in the image have closed eyes. Addendum 2, Incident-2272-Domino Initial containment procedures for SCP-2272 orchestrated the appointment of Field Agent Robert Potsdam as General Manager of the Pensacola Blue Wahoo's. With the intent to trade Ellis Canestota to a Foundation-controlled Summer League Baseball Team to contain SCP-2272's effects. The evening after his appointment as General Manager, Agent Potsdam was found comatose in his bed after suffering apparent blunt force trauma to the head. All Foundation staffers with an approximately 40 km radius of Agent Potsdam's location reported experiencing the same dream that evening. Foundation staffers reported sitting in the stands of a baseball stadium and viewing Ellis Canestota throwing a fastball at the head of a bound Robert Potsdam.