The Naturals

The Naturals are the team at the center of Anderson Carman's Cyber League Baseball: The Naturals. Assembled by Asher after he turns down the robotic augmentation that has become standard across the sport, the roster is made up entirely of unaugmented players who compete on unmodified human ability. They stand against the Cyber League, a professional circuit whose athletes have been rebuilt into cybernetic competitors, and their run at a championship is framed as the longest of long shots. The team functions as the book's ensemble, with its players gathered around Asher and his conviction that the game is still worth playing without machinery.