Welcome, Will Ferrell to the @mlb pantheon. http://t.co/HfM5F3wlF4 @CFCcharity pic.twitter.com/TB4EIcPihN
— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) March 13, 2015
On Thursday, Will Ferrell set out to make baseball “history” by playing 10 positions on ten teams in one day.
Ferrell accomplished this feat by playing for the Oakland A’s, the Seattle Mariners, the Los Angeles Angels, the Chicago Cubs, the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago White Sox, the San Francisco Giants, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres.
On Friday, Ferrell’s prodigious career was forever immortalized on Baseball-Reference.com.
Ferrell’s page notes that Ferrell “bats” right-handed and that he weighs “220ish.”
However, the best section is the list of transactions that made up Ferrell’s baseball career. Seeing the whole surreal spectacle laid out so dryly really underscores how absurd Ferrell’s journey really was:
March 12, 2015: Signed by the Oakland A’s as an undrafted amateur free agent.
March 12, 2015: Traded to Seattle Mariners for Comedic Actor to be Named Later
March 12, 2015: Joined Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in unknown transaction.
March 12, 2015: Traded to Chicago Cubs for a washing machine.
March 12, 2015: Traded to Arizona Diamondbacks for a Churro Dog and D-Bat Dog.
March 12, 2015: Claimed off waivers by Cincinnati Reds, Norm MacDonald released.
March 12, 2015: Granted unconditional release by Cincinnati Reds.
March 12, 2015: Signed by Chicago White Sox as Free Agent.
March 12, 2015: Traded to San Francisco Giants for unknown compensation.
March 12, 2015: Traded to Los Angeles Dodgers for unknown compensation.
March 12, 2015: Traded to San Diego Padres for unknown compensation.
