As President-elect Donald Trump continues the task of filling out his Cabinet and senior White House staff, the one overriding consistency in his preparations for office has been his unconventional methods and choices. The American electorate wanted change — change is what they’re getting.

We’d like to suggest one very unconventional choice — one that by conventional standards makes no sense at all but would prove very successful and popular.

Trump should push to immediately normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba. And he should draft retired New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter as his American Ambassador to Havana.

For the record. Jeter has no experience with politics, diplomacy or foreign affairs. He probably has no intimate knowledge of Cuba’s history.

But what Jeter does have is five World Series championship rings, 14 All-Star Game appearances and a certain berth to the Baseball Hall of Fame — plus thousands adoring Cuban fans, both expatriate Habaneros in the United States and Cuban residents.

Combine that with his deep respect for the rules of the game and his relentless drive to win.

Jeter has a spotless reputation — a rare trait among today’s professional sports elite.

Baseball is by far the most popular sport among the Cuban people. The recently deceased dictator Fidel Castro, a lifelong fan, was reputed to be an accomplished pitcher during his college days in the 1940s.

In recent years, professional baseball players have become one of Cuba’s most prominent exports — and most exasperating embarrassments. To claim a career in the sport they love, they must defect from their homeland, leaving behind their families and belongings. Over the past 25 years, nearly 100 Cuban-born players have made the difficult choice to leave home forever and play ball in the Major Leagues.

A record-high 23 Cuban-born players were on Major League rosters on opening day in 2016.

Wouldn’t it be easier for Major League Baseball to locate an expansion team in Havana?

That might have been a shadow theme last March, when the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team traveled to Havana for an exhibition game with the Cuban national team. Jeter, now a permanent resident of the Tampa area, went along as an “MLB ambassador.”

Baseball could easily be Cuba’s incentive to return to a free-market economy and democratic form of government after six decades of self-imposed communist rule.

In revolutionary terms, that would be a very unconventional grand slam.