If Bob Dylan played baseball: catcher, rated 80

Bob Dylan as a baseball player: scouting report

Bob Dylan would catch, and he has already shown an interest in the game: in the 1970s he cowrote and recorded Catfish, a tribute to the pitcher Catfish Hunter. Behind the plate he gets to do what he has always done best: watch closely, notice what everyone else misses and decide what comes next. A catcher chooses every pitch, and few people in this pool have thought harder about choosing exactly the right word.

His eye is the best part of his card. He grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, found his voice in the Greenwich Village folk scene, then went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, and every one of those moves came from reading the room before anyone else did. At the plate that becomes patience; he takes walks and waits for his pitch. Contact sits right behind, so he hits for average and slices line drives to the opposite field. His fielding is solid, with the soft hands a pitcher wants for framing.

The arm is the honest weakness, so base stealers will run on him. Pair him with a pitcher who has a quick move to first and he becomes much harder to exploit. Power is light. In 2016 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his songwriting, and that kind of mind belongs behind the plate, though second base and shortstop are both playable if you need him elsewhere. Draft him in the middle rounds and bat him second.

Plays like A cerebral catcher who calls a game like he writes a verse

Put Bob Dylan in your lineup

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