If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played baseball: second base, rated 88

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a baseball player: scouting report

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composing as a small child and touring the courts of Europe as a prodigy before most children could read, and he would be the second baseman who makes the game look as if it were written for him. His contact is the best mark on his card, his speed is just as good, and his fielding is close behind. A second baseman with those three tools turns every ground ball up the middle into an out and every single into a scoring chance.

He wrote more than six hundred works, from The Marriage of Figaro to The Magic Flute, often at astonishing speed, and that quickness shows up everywhere on the field: quick hands on the double play pivot, a quick first step and a quick bat that slaps the ball where the defense is not. The story goes that as a teenager he heard Allegri's Miserere in the Sistine Chapel and wrote it out from memory, and an ear like that would pick up a pitcher's tell after one look. His eye is elite too, so he walks almost as often as he strikes out.

Power is the soft spot. He will hit doubles and triples rather than home runs, and his arm is light, which is why second base suits him better than shortstop, his next best spot. He can also run down anything in the outfield. Draft him early as a leadoff hitter, pair him with a strong armed shortstop to handle the deep throws and let him set the tempo of every game, allegro from the first pitch.

Plays like A lightning quick second baseman with perfect bat control

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