The Cadre apparently recruited a new Fastball, who seems to have the same skills as his predecessor. This man was spotted during the Final Crisis. The first Fastball was also among the assembled Cadre when they fought the JLA in the Overmaster’s base. He was again seen with the team many years later when they worked for, then betrayed, Doctor Polaris. During the Brother Eye/OMAC crisis of 2005, Fastball was butchered by an OMAC unit. He was the first member of the Cadre sent by the Overmaster to meet the JLA, and engaged Steel in Detroit to gauge his prowess. Fastball was surprised by Steel’s superhuman power and nearly got crushed under a large piece of pavement. But the Overmaster teleported him away, leaving a medallion as a calling card.

The first Fastball apparently had a career as a minor league baseball pitcher in Florida. He then became a criminal and a syndicate assassin. In the mid-1980s, he was recruited to become a member of the Cadre, and thus a minor super-villain.