If Lady Gaga played baseball: outfield, rated 84

Lady Gaga as a baseball player: scouting report

Lady Gaga plays the outfield, and her bat is the reason. She started playing piano as a small child in New York and trained her ear long before the world knew her name, and hitting is an ear and eye skill as much as a strength one: the best hitters pick up the spin and adjust in the middle of a swing. Contact is the top mark on her card. Expect a high average, plenty of line drives and very few strikeouts.

Her eye sits right behind the contact, which suits a performer with unusual range. She went from The Fame and Born This Way to two jazz albums with Tony Bennett, then won an Oscar for Shallow from A Star Is Born, and a hitter with that kind of range adjusts to any pitcher, power or finesse. Her speed is good and her fielding is solid, so she can handle center or a corner and run once she gets on. When she headlined the Super Bowl LI halftime show in 2017 she opened the performance on the stadium roof, so a high fly ball against the lights will not faze her.

The arm is the honest weakness, so she belongs in left or center rather than right, and a strong armed teammate in right fixes the rest. Power is modest, more gap doubles than home runs. If your outfield is crowded, she moves to second base with only a small drop and can play shortstop in an emergency. Bat her second, where her contact moves runners and her eye keeps innings alive, and take her in the early middle rounds.

Plays like A spray hitting outfielder with a perfect pitch bat

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