A team of various, willing players from around the league is assembled. During the summer, off-season days and off-days during the season, this team of Extinct or Alive: Animal Species Protectors (AKA: the ASP), ventures out to defend species around the world, conserve the nearly extinct and prove the existence of the "thought-to-be-extinct."
These nine young men live by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which is a worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. It divides species into nine categories: Extinct (EX), Extinct in the Wild (EW), Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), Vulnerable (VU), Near Threatened (NT), Least Concern (LC), Data Deficient (DD) and Not Evaluated (NE).
With some new faces rotating into the "ASP" team, they all gather together to aid in the discovery of new species, old species and most importantly determine if a species is truly...
Extinct.
Or.
Alive.