Jennifer Goodfellow

## About

**Jennifer Goodfellow** is a generic girl who loves to play baseball. She specializes in hitting the ball really, really hard, and she's very good at it. Her favorite things are making pitchers cry and the number 17. Her least favorite thing is the fact that there's no Designated Hitter role in this game!

## Scouting Report

### Backyard Baseball 2001-2003

**Jennifer Goodfellow**

Jennifer Goodfellow was put in this game to do one thing - crush, hospitalize, obliterate, hyper-condense before sending into the stratosphere, to ***HIT...*** the ball. She is without a doubt a top-class batter in power, and contact is also quite solid, more often than not balls that aren't homers will be sent low into the outfield. Unfortunately, that's about where it ends with Jennifer Goodfellow's "great" aspects. Her throwing arm is actually quite solid, better than one would assume based on her 1 in Fielding, but everything else is extremely poor. Her speed makes her a liability on the field and on the base-path, and she can't really catch on top of having mediocre vision. But *man* can she slug!

She is unique from other "all or nothing" batters like Rafael Hendrix and Joella Minotti, who both have better stats overall, in that she tends to get picked much earlier in competitive leagues, probably due to how consistent of a hitter she is (and probably also her arm).

## League History

### BBL

Jennifer Goodfellow is one of the greatest hitters of all time. With 55 career home runs (tied 8th all-time) and a lifetime slugging percentage of 1.526 (16th all-time), she is an absolute menace at the plate. She's one of, if not the slowest, kids to achieve a lifetime batting average above .600, and is also one of the worst players to ever get voted for in the MVP voting (statistically speaking). Her high career stats haven't gotten her picked in the two-digit range, but she backs up everything she has behind that ridiculous hitting power. Nearly every team she's been on has benefitted offensively from her being there.

#### Seasons 1 & 2

Jennifer was not picked in season 1 due to the fact that nobody knew how to hack the game's coach file yet, and unfortunately for her in season 2, wasn't picked either, due to the fact that there were only a few generic kids allowed in the league and she wasn't one of them.

#### Season 3

Ol' Jolly Jenny finally got her day when she was drafted 163rd overall by legendary coach gmchappe, for the Boston Red Sox. Even among the insanely powerful number of bats on his team, such as Nomar Garciaparra, Rafael Hendrix, and Gary Allen, she led the team in home runs and RBIs, with 17 and 60 respectively. She and the rest of the Sox would go 9-5 and even go on to win that season's secondary playoffs, making her technically a champion of some sort, but not officially listed as one by the books.

#### Season 4

Unsurprisingly after a strong opening season, Jennifer's stock draft went up, getting drafted 9th in the 6th round (129th overall) by JibboDaHibbo's Junior Brewers. While her batting average dropped (from .716 to .696... which is frankly still ridiculous for a kid of her speed tier), her hitting actually was even better than the previous season, hitting 17 homers once again but a whopping 74 RBIs, more doubles and her first career triples, of which she hit 2. She was by far the best hitter on this team, as the overall power was much lower. This team went 11-3 and actually made it to the World Series, where, sadly, she and her team did not win, losing 1-3 to KiiiiiiiiiiiiiS's White Sox. Nonetheless, things were still looking up for Jennifer.

#### Season 5 - Lulu

Presumably due to her ridiculous hitting performance, once again Jennifer's stocks went up, being drafted 100th overall (the highest she has ever been picked) by the best hitting coach in league history, Crazyei8hts, and his Jolly Green Giants. A match made in heaven, Jennifer Goodfellow for the third year in a row somehow managed to hit 17 home runs yet again. That being said, her stats actually dropped from last year, getting only 39 hits... hitting for an average of .629 with a 0.652 OBP, a slugging % of 1.565, and the highest OPS *and* the highest home run count on her team (tied first), and even finished 5th in MVP voting (tied with 4 other players). This team went on an absolute tear, going 13-1... but unfortunately was eliminated round 1 in the playoffs by Wizard's Super-Duper Wombats.

Needless to say, while her stats went down, she still proved herself to be a super solid player. But things were a little shakier, especially given the league's gradual learning of how the AI defenses work.

#### Season 6

For the first time ever, Jennifer Goodfellow's draft stocks dropped, and they dropped pretty hard, going from 100th overall in season 5 to 147th in season 6, 3rd in round 7, by rookie coach MarcoMcGwire, playing for the Crazy Cubs. Unfortunately, she, and the rest of her team, did not do very well this season, going 1-9 before the coach eventually left for real life reasons, being picked up by another coach (EclipsedxShadow) for one game, and after mysteriously disappearing (or perhaps he was never real to begin with, nobody is really sure), finally picked up for the last three games by Vissery (who was okay with this as Jennifer is their favorite player). Both she and the rest of the team did better offensively in the last four games, but to no avail, as the team went 3-11, being the first time Jennifer would not make a playoff appearance in her career.

Despite the team's overall poor performance, Jennifer still managed to hit the most home runs on her team, with 4.

#### Season 7

Despite her historic worst performance last season, and more knowledge of the AI than ever, Jennifer was picked in the exact same place, 3rd in round 7, by Wizard's Wombats team. This time deciding go full offense, as opposed to Wizard's normally very defensive teams, Jennifer was joined by a ridiculous group of power hitters. The Wombats' offense was superb, and Jennifer batted 0.661 with 16 homers and 55 RBIs to help the Wombats make the playoffs.

#### Season 8

In season 8, Jennifer went back to coach Vissery of the Royals after she was drafted 118th overall in the 5th round. However, after the draft, coach Vissery let mbless1415 take over the team. Je, whennifer's power numbers took a slight hit as she went deep just 10 times, but she had a career high in batting average with 0.722. She made the playoffs once again with the Hornets.

#### Season 9

The next season, Jennifer reunited with coach Wizard on the Cardinals, when he took her with the 136th overall pick in the 6th round. She and Sammy Sosa were the two big bats on the team as they combined for 31 home runs and 90 RBIs.

#### Season 10

##### 2003

In Season 10, on the *2003* side, Jennifer was drafted 105th overall in the 5th round by coach PepsiBoyTTV of the Diamondbacks. Jennifer had a decent season, hitting 9 home runs while driving in 33 runs. She helped the D'Backs make the playoffs.

## Trivia

* In *Backyard Baseball 2001,* she is known as Joan Mae. One of multiple kids to receive a name change, but otherwise she is an identical player in every way.
* Despite her 1 in fielding, she has only made 4 errors in her entire BBL career.
* Despite being known for her hitting, she has never participated in a home run derby. This is because the format is done in batting practice, where generic kids aren't selectable except by hex editing.