If Steve Jobs played baseball: starting pitcher, rated 90

Steve Jobs as a baseball player: scouting report

Steve Jobs takes the ball as a starter, and he would pitch the way he built products: nothing wasted. He was famous for stripping away anything unnecessary, from buttons on a phone to clutter on a screen, and a great starting pitcher does the same with an at bat. Every pitch has a purpose. His pitching is elite, and the eye that sits atop his card is the reason: he sees which hitter is guessing and gives him exactly what he did not want.

That eye was the trait people noticed first. He sat in on a calligraphy class at Reed College that later shaped the typefaces on the original Macintosh, a detail almost anyone else would have skipped. On the mound that becomes pinpoint command and sequencing that sets a hitter up two pitches ahead. His contact is also outstanding, so he is the rare pitcher you would happily let hit, and the arm and fielding are solid enough to hold runners and field his position. He cofounded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976 and later unveiled the iPod and the iPhone in keynotes that always seemed to hold one more surprise for the end, which is roughly how he would save his best pitch for the final out.

Power is the honest weakness, which is no problem on the mound. If you want his bat in the lineup every day, second base is his next best spot with only a modest drop, and he can even catch and call the game for someone else. He also led Pixar when it released Toy Story. Take him early as a true ace; he is one of the best starters in this pool.

Plays like A precise ace who never wastes a pitch

Put Steve Jobs in your lineup

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