Claimed: Edwin Preencarnacion Biography [2/2]

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Name: Edwin Preencarnacion

Position: Right Wing

Age: 22

Nation of Birth: The Dominican Republic

Height: 6’2”

Weight: 235 lbs

 

Early Life and MLB career

Edwin Encarnacion was born on January 7^th 1983 in La Romana to parents Elpido Encarnacion and Mireya Rivera. As his dad was a college track and field coach, Edwin was brought into a sporting family and while he was a talented javelin thrower at a young age, his first love was baseball. Demonstrating incredible hit power for someone of such a young age, Edwin attracted a lot of interest from scouts who were looking for the next big hitter to join their MLB team. Ordinarily, players from the Dominican Republic are not eligible for the MLB draft, but as Edwin split time between the Dominican Republic and Panama because of his father’s job, he was able to enter the draft and the then seventeen year old Edwin was selected in the ninth round of the draft by the Texas Rangers. A year after being drafted by them, he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds and made his MLB debut four years later. During his four years playing with the Reds at the MLB level, it was apparent that Edwin was a very powerful hitter, but his lack of consistency both at the plate and whilst fielding led to problems that would see him benched and at one point moved down to the Reds AAA team. After a poor start to the 2009 season, Edwin was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays and according to sources, was not actually wanted by the Toronto General Manager, however the Reds wouldn’t accept the deal they had in play unless Edwin went the other way.

 

While Edwin’s play improved after joining Toronto, it still wasn’t enough to hold a regular place in the side and he was moved down to the team’s AAA affiliate temporarily during his second season with the team. It wasn’t until 2012 that Edwin exploded onto the scene, picking up 40 home runs for the first time in his career while also picking up Toronto Blue Jays awards for player of the season and most improved player. Things were looking great for Encarnacion, however, in what was a huge shock to the Blue Jays organization, Edwin left the MLB to pursue a career in hockey, a sport he’d never played before.

 

VHL – The Encarnacion Era

After watching an interview on the television with Ryan Sullivan that overran to the point where it ran over into Edwin’s favourite TV show Murder She Wrote, Edwin vowed to do whatever it took to beat the living hell out of Sullivan. Edwin declared for the VHLM Draft in Season 34 and was taken in the second round of that draft by the Saskatoon Wild. Ordinarily, this would have been considered a huge mistake, but at the time the Wild were understaffed and were openly tanking to achieve a higher pick in the Season 35 VHLM Draft. Lo and behold, both the Wild and Encarnacion were terrible but, through the league’s debatable method of locking players out of the VHLM after they’ve accrued enough practice hours, Edwin was forced to join the VHL, to the dismay of many VHL players and fans. Edwin was taken with the fifth pick in the VHL Draft, another very early selection but once again the same logic persisted as the Riga Reign were actively looking for a top pick in the Season 36 Draft. After Edwin had already tanked the Reign to the point where they were assured of a top two pick, he was traded to the Seattle Bears at the trade deadline for Brennan McQueen, who would go on to make the Hall of Fame. Why Seattle decided to make this trade was anyone’s guess, as Edwin had even stopped turning up for training, but his stay there was a short one and he was moved on to the Cologne Express midway through Season 36. Edwin returned to practices in Season 37 and demonstrated a new resolve that saw him put up relatively decent offensive stats while maintaining his trademark physicality. This caught the eye of the Calgary Wranglers, who were looking to make a run at the championship, and Edwin was traded for the third time in five seasons. Season 39 was easily Encarnacion’s most successful year and he even received some votes for the Labatte Trophy and Season 40 saw Edwin make a Conference Final, however citing a desire to become the most physical player in VHL history, Edwin left the Wranglers to join Free Agency. Abandoning all offensive talents he had acquired during his previous six seasons, Encarnacion joined the Stockholm Vikings in Season 41 and had easily his worst season offensively, but he did wind up accruing the hits and shot blocks he was after. He left the Vikings at the end of the season to re-join the Wranglers in Season 42, his final season in the VHL. While the Wranglers were now nowhere near playoff contention, Encarnacion put up personal bests in Penalty Minutes and hits. Edwin ended his career leading defensemen in Penalty Minutes and Hits and second all time in Shots Blocked (although he was only 20 or so behind the all-time leader and he had a now unrepeatable nine seasons in the league). It was for these records that the VHL commissioners felt that the only acceptable response to Edwin staining the record books was to assassinate him by setting him on fire (Edwin had burned down numerous VHL-owned facilities in his tenure in the league). Edwin Encarnacion was dead, or so they presumed.

 

But Was That How It Happened?

Fast forward twenty seasons, past the re-birthed Reencarnacion that went to go on to become a Hall of Famer, past Threencarnacion, the Terminator/backup goalie hybrid birthed after the flames of Reencarnacion had been extinguished and don’t even bother to acknowledge the dude who did everything randomly. A new player is set to enter the Season 61 VHL Draft, and he’s a younger Edwin Encarnacion, in-fact a version of Encarnacion eight years younger than the Encarnacion that entered the league in Season 35. Brought to this timeline by Threencarnacion under the orders of one Aackckqz Ky (who stated that “The random has decided that this will be so”), it looks like Encarnacion will be getting a second go at things. Will he leave as much of a stain on the records books this go around or will a younger Encarnacion who hasn’t been angered by Ryan Sullivan put more of a focus on being an actual hockey player?

 

Welcome to the Era of Preencarnacion!

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Review:

Meets the word count as needed.

Pretty funny how this player came to be....risen from the dead.

Awesome story. I always liked Edwin as a MLB player too.

[SlapshotWrangler 864]

Review:

A baseball player as a hockey player? Genius! This is a great biography, (as expected from the king of Nacions) and the naming is very mysterious. I'm surprised nobody else has wondered why the names are so similar. Maybe Encarnacion cloned his younger self over and over again. Who knows? A really good story and the transition to hockey was a really good idea! Maybe explain more about why he chose hockey instead of Basketball or something else. (I know that hockey players are typically also good at baseball and vice versa but still, explain a bit more)