If Paul McCartney played baseball: third base, rated 80

Paul McCartney as a baseball player: scouting report

Paul McCartney has played more ballparks than most ballplayers. The Beatles played Shea Stadium in 1965, one of the first great stadium rock concerts, and gave their final paid concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966. Now he gets to use the field. He lands at third base, where his famously left handed bass playing becomes a left handed swing, and a melody writer's sense of timing becomes the knack of reading a pitch early.

His eye is the best part of his card. The melody of Yesterday famously came to him in a dream, and he spent weeks playing it for friends to make sure he had not borrowed it from somewhere; that same care makes him a patient hitter who lets bad pitches go by. Contact sits right behind the eye, so he hits for average and drives the ball to all fields. His fielding is solid and his speed is better than most corner infielders can offer, enough to go first to third on a single.

The arm is the honest weakness, and it is the one thing that makes third base a stretch, since the long throw across the diamond is the job's toughest test. Play him a step in and let a sure handed first baseman scoop the rest. Power is moderate, more doubles than home runs. If you would rather hide the arm, second base costs a little and first base a little more. Draft him in the middle rounds and bat him second, the spot where a hitter keeps the whole lineup in tune, much as he did for the Beatles and then for Wings.

Plays like A sweet swinging left handed bat at the hot corner

Put Paul McCartney in your lineup

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