Mudcat Ranelli is a former baseball player for the Houston Astros, and Stan's childhood hero in "A League of His Own".
When Stan's fear of the ball causes him to blow a big softball game after years of faking his accomplishments, he runs away to Orlando Florida to manage a motel. Hayley and Roger follow him to try to talk him into coming back, but are initially unsuccessful. However, when he sees Mudcat paying a prostitute for sex, he talks him into giving him a lesson. Mudcat takes a horrendous injury of a baseball through the skull, which had killed Stan's childhood coach, but Mudcat does manage to survive this.