If John Lennon played baseball: catcher, rated 79

John Lennon as a baseball player: scouting report

John Lennon would catch. He played rhythm guitar in the Beatles, the part that holds a song together while others take the solos, and the catcher is a ball club's rhythm section: setting the tempo for the pitcher, steadying the infield and keeping the whole game in time. He started the Quarrymen, the band that grew into the Beatles, as a teenager in Liverpool, so organizing a group around him comes naturally.

Contact is the top mark on his card, and his eye is level with it. He would be a line drive hitter with a short, quick swing who rarely chases and puts the ball in play. He studied at the Liverpool College of Art and published books of his own wordplay and drawings, and that habit of seeing things from an odd angle helps a catcher spot what a hitter is sitting on. His fielding is solid, with good hands for framing and blocking balls in the dirt.

Power is the honest weakness, and his arm is on the light side too, so pair him with a pitcher who holds runners and a middle infield that covers the bag quickly. He wrote Imagine in 1971, a song built on a few simple chords and one clear idea, and that clarity is how he would call a game. If you need him elsewhere, second base works with a small drop and shortstop in a pinch. Bat him second and draft him in the middle rounds as a high contact catcher.

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