Hotbox Sato

was a lineup player for the Charleston Shoe Thieves, and was with the team from , Day 58 until being incinerated on , Day 20. 
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==Official League Records==
Sato joined the ILB as a lineup player for the Boston Flowers after the incineration of Bryanayah Chang on , Day 5.
On , Day 58, Sato was exchanged to the Charleston Shoe Thieves due to Feedback. Sato was replaced by Morrow Doyle.
During the election, the Shoe Thieves received the Mutually Arising blessing, resulting in a combined stat increase.
During the election, the Shoe Thieves received the Radical Alchemy blessing, which randomized Sato's batting from 
On Season 9, Day X, Sato gained the modification after the Shoe Thieves lost to THE SHELLED ONE'S PODS.
On , Day 41, Sato's defensive ability was siphoned by Hawaii Fridays lineup player Spears Taylor in a game with Blooddrain weather, decreasing it from . On Day 75, Sato's defensive ability was again siphoned by Taylor, decreasing it from .
In the , Sato received Noise-Cancelling Headphones, becoming Soundproof. (The Headphones would later be lost, along with all other Discipline Era items across the league, at the beginning of Season 15.) 
On , Day 20, Sato was incinerated and replaced with Alx Keming.
==Blaseball Career==
===Career with the Shoe Thieves===
The Shoe Thieves were at first unaware they had received a player in exchange for Morrow Doyle, only realizing Hotbox Sato had been traded to their team after it triggered the smoke alarms in the Charleston clubhouse. After an evacuation and several attempts by the local fire department to find the source of the smoke, Velasquez Alstott discovered the word "Hello" and a rudimentary smiling face drawn in the soot on the clubhouse window. With the support from a coven of local witches, the Shoe Thieves were able to forge a psychic link with Sato, and with this new medium of communication soon welcomed Sato to the team. 
Inducting Sato into the Charleston tradition of footwear larceny initially proved challenging as Sato found it tiring to wear shoes for an extended period of time, but pitcher Snyder Briggs suggested they burn some of the shoes left behind by Morrow Doyle, and Sato was able to successfully incorporate the resulting smoke into their own body, which manager Cornelius Games declared "Close enough for me." 
While Sato was capable of maintaining a cohesive physical form, it preferred to relax by dispersing evenly throughout an entire room. To accommodate this, the Shoe Thieves removed all smoke detectors and fans from one of the lounges in the Charleston clubhouse, affectionately nicknaming it "the Shoebox".
Sato could often be found relaxing and watching old sitcoms in one of the Shoe Thieves' many piles of stolen shoes with Snyder Briggs, who it was reportedly particularly close to.
Additionally, Sato seemed to have found itself a niche as a tutor for its fellow Shoe Thieves. While Sato was already familiar with ASL, it quickly learned LSQ to better communicate with teammate Joe Voorhees. Afterwards, Sato took it upon itself to try and teach the young Velasquez Alstott. While it can be difficult to impress the importance of topics aside from Blaseball and Shoe Larceny, Sato was more than willing to work within the metaphor of planning a heist to teach problem solving, though the three seem to view the lessons as more of a bonding experience than anything else.
==Personal Life==
Sato appeared to be entirely made of smoke. No one is sure how it held a bat, or caught a ball, but its results were undeniable. It was also a very straight-edged individual and in fact believed its name derives from saunas; it was therefore unknown at the whether the smoke had psychoactive chemicals in it.
There were rumors that Sato may have been involved with former New York Millennials player Dominic Marijuana or teammate Snyder Briggs.
===The Smokehouse Gang===
Upon Tillman Henderson's transfer to the Thieves, Briggs and Sato incorporated the new player into their dynamic. Henderson was spotted regularly joining the two for Sitcom Night, which seemed to occur every evening. Shortly thereafter, Henderson began referring to the trio as "The Smokehouse Gang," evidently due to the fact that all three players are in some way affiliated with smoke. When questioned in an interview, Sato commented that "I really don’t think calling it 'The Smokehouse Gang' is a good idea." In an attempt to be respectful of Sato's wishes, the press dubbed the group the "I Really Don’t Think Calling It The Smokehouse Gang Is A Good Idea" gang, also known as the IRDTCITSGIAGI gang or The Smokehouse Gang for short. Most of the gang's activities revolved around television in some capacity.
By the end of the Grand Siesta, Sato had allegedly entered a romantic relationship with Briggs, and the Smokehouse Gang had expanded to include Sunbeams players Miguel James and Iggy Delacruz.
After Sato's incineration, Tillman Henderson was quoted as saying "Turns out the smoke could burn, who knew?" while rubbing his eyes.
==Fan Works==
File:HOTBOX SATO.png|Boston Flowers Rookie Sato by @jacobturcotte
File:HotboxSatoS3 by eugene.png|Boston Flowers (Season 3) Sato by Discord user eugene#5995
File:HotboxSato-sketches by Faevolf.jpg|Sketches by Discord user Faevolf#2620
File:Hotbox Flowers.jpg|Fanart by 
File:116HotboxSato.png|Mini-Blaseballer by 
File:LeachHotbox eli.png|Sato and Leach Ingram by @bugsbenedict
File:Hotbox.png|Fanart by @solphy
File:But it refused.png|Sato and Snyder Briggs after the failed feedback swap by @solphy
File:Rogue ump incinerated hotbox sato!.jpg|Rogue Umpire incinerated Hotbox Sato! by @solphy
File:Nobody think about how there's only one member left in the smokehouse gang!!.jpg|alt=A drawing of Hotbox Sato, Snyder Briggs, and Tillman Henderson in Shoe Thieves uniforms. Hotbox is scattered with smoke trailing around it and Tillman has fire on and surrounding him with a sun behind him; both have black lines across their eyes. Snyder stands in the middle with text saying \"NOBODY THINK ABOUT HOW THERE'S ONLY ONE MEMBER LEFT IN THE SMOKEHOUSE GANG\" above their head.|Nobody Think About How There's Only One Member Left in the Smokehouse Gang by 
File:Smoke Thief Smoke Thief.jpg|Oh, this shoe? by @waittheresmoor
File:Rogue Umpire incinerated Hotbox Sato!.jpg|Incineration of Hotbox Sato by 
File:Unboxed.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of Hotbox Sato, a person made of wispy dark gray smoke with one gold eye and wearing a dark green and yellow pinstriped Shoe Thieves jersey.|Sato by @_pysics
==References==
Category:Players
Category:Players Who Replaced an Incinerated Player
Category:Incinerated Players
Category:Nonhuman Players
Category:Nominative Determinism