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If Jensen Huang played baseball: designated hitter, rated 85

Jensen Huang would play designated hitter in baseball, rated 85 in Legends Draft MLB, the parody game where famous people play baseball. The position leans hardest on power and contact, where Jensen Huang rates 81 and 83. Best attribute: eye (96). A designated hitter with an elite eye and a quick bat. His eye leads the card, contact is next, and speed is the soft spot.

Portrait of Jensen Huang

Photo: The White House, Public domain

Techborn 1963

Natural position

DH Designated hitter

Rating

85OVR

Plays like: A precise, high contact hitter who processes every pitch.

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Baseball ratings

Made up for the game, 40 to 99.

Contact
83
Power
81
Eye
96
Speed
56
Fielding
79
Arm
60
Pitching
70

Where Jensen Huang fits

Each spot weighs the ratings its own way. Away from the natural spot a legend loses a few points; on the bench everyone plays at their natural rating.

  1. DHDesignated hitter, natural85
  2. 1BFirst base82
  3. CCatcher74
  4. 2BSecond base74
  5. 3BThird base74

Jensen Huang as a baseball player: scouting report

Jensen Huang helped found Nvidia in 1993, sketching out the plan in a Denny's, the same chain where he had worked as a teenager washing dishes and busing tables. The company built the graphics chips that process images faster than any eye can follow. He would be a designated hitter, and a dangerous one, because his eye is the best mark on his card by a distance. He sees spin early, recognizes the slider out of the hand and lays off anything that is not his pitch.

As a teenager he was a competitive table tennis player, good enough to finish third in a junior doubles event at the US Open, and table tennis is all about reading spin and reacting in a fraction of a second. That is hitting. His contact is the second best mark on his card, and his power is real, so he drives mistakes into the gaps and over the fence. He studied electrical engineering at Oregon State and Stanford, and he would treat each at bat like a design problem: collect the data, find the pattern, execute.

Speed is the soft spot, so he is a station to station runner, and his arm is below average, which is why designated hitter fits him perfectly. First base is his next best spot and a fine choice, and he could even catch, where his eye for patterns would help a pitching staff. He has run Nvidia for more than three decades, a rare run of consistency for any founder, and that is exactly what a drafter wants in the heart of the order. Take him early and put runners on base in front of him.

Plays like A precise, high contact hitter who processes every pitch

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Jensen Huang in real life

Real life

American entrepreneur and businessman; co-founder and CEO of Nvidia

Lived
Born 1963
From
Taiwan, United States
Known as
entrepreneur, engineer, businessperson, computer scientist
Sport
table tennis
Honors
IEEE Founders Medal, Time 100, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, National Medal of Science, and 1 more

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Questions about Jensen Huang in baseball

What position would Jensen Huang play in baseball?
Designated hitter. In Legends Draft MLB the position leans hardest on power and contact, where Jensen Huang rates 81 and 83. The next best spots are first base (82) and catcher (74).
What is Jensen Huang's rating in Legends Draft MLB?
85 at designated hitter, the natural position. Away from it a legend loses a few points; on the bench everyone plays at their natural rating.
What is Jensen Huang's best attribute?
Eye, at 96. The weakest is power, at 81.
Are these ratings real?
No. Legends Draft MLB is a parody game and the ratings are made up for fun, on a scale of 40 to 99. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone in it.

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