If Queen Elizabeth II played baseball: third base, rated 75

Queen Elizabeth II as a baseball player: scouting report

Queen Elizabeth II would hold down third base the way she held the throne: with seventy years of steadiness. During the Second World War she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service and trained as a driver and mechanic. A player who can service an army truck is not going to flinch at a hard one hopper down the line.

Her eye is the best part of her card. She held weekly audiences with fifteen British prime ministers over her reign, beginning with Winston Churchill, and a lifetime of listening closely is the profile of a hitter who sees a lot of pitches and rarely chases. Contact is her second strength, so she puts the ball in play and moves runners along. There is enough power to drive a mistake into the gap, though she is more of a line drive hitter than a slugger. Her fielding is reliable rather than flashy, which is exactly what a manager wants at third.

Speed is the one place her card dips, and it barely matters at the hot corner, where the job is a quick first step and a sure glove. A lifelong horsewoman who kept riding well into her nineties also has the endurance for a long season. If you need her elsewhere, first base costs very little and designated hitter keeps her disciplined bat in the lineup. Draft her in the middle rounds and slot her second in the order, ahead of your power.

Plays like A steady hot corner glove who never misses a game

Put Queen Elizabeth II in your lineup

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