If Tiger Woods played baseball: starting pitcher, rated 89

Tiger Woods as a baseball player: scouting report

Tiger Woods spent his career building a swing that would hold up over the final nine holes of a major, and a pitcher needs exactly that: a delivery that repeats in the ninth inning the way it did in the first. He would be a starting pitcher, and a frightening one. Pitching is one of the two best marks on his card and his eye is the best of all, the same eye that read the break on thousands of putts now reading a hitter's weak spot.

His record belongs to a man who wins the big ones. He won the 1997 Masters by twelve strokes at twenty one, held all four major titles at once across 2000 and 2001, and finished with fifteen majors and eighty two PGA Tour wins. That kind of closer belongs on the mound in a seventh game. He was hitting golf balls on national television as a small child, and that early start shows in mechanics that never seem to break down. His arm is strong, so the fastball has real life, and his fielding is good enough to handle anything hit back up the middle.

Speed is the soft spot on his card, and a pitcher rarely needs it. Catcher and second base are his next best spots, rated evenly, and his calm under pressure would serve him well behind the plate on a close play at home. As a drafter, take him early as a staff ace and pair him with a catcher who knows when to leave him alone. He studies every hitter the way he studied every green, and once he settles on a plan, he does not let go of it.

Plays like A cold blooded ace who repeats his delivery every time

Put Tiger Woods in your lineup

12 rolls, nine hitters and a rotation, 162 games. Can you win 117? Free, no account.