PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER

JOB DESCRIPTION

• MLB players report to spring training in February
• There are 162 games in a season. Half at home and half away.
• Very few breaks, and extensive travel demands with trips all over the country
• The average MLB career is 5.6 years
• Most games are played at night

SKILLS NEEDED

• Hand eye coordination
• Athleticism
• Time management
• Power
• Agility

DAILY ACTIVITIES

• MLB baseball players usually have a game every day
• They usually arrive at the stadium 2-3 hours before each game
• Both teams will take batting practice and have fielding activities
• A normal game usually lasts 2 1/2 to 3 hours

MATH SKILLS NEEDED FOR A PRO BASEBALL PLAYER

• Pitchers and batters have to know the most math skills in baseball
• Pitchers have to know the percentage of first pitches a batter will take
• Or they might have to know a batters on base percentage or batting average
• A batter might have to know many times does a pitcher throw a certain pitch
• A catcher should know how many times does the guy on first steal when he's on base

MATH PROBLEM

• The distance between each of the 4 consecutive bases on a baseball diamond is 90 feet
• How far does a catcher have to throw the ball to get to home plate to second base?

SOLUTION TO MATH PROBLEM

• We would have to use the Pythagorean theorem to solve this problem. A squared + b squared= c squared
• If we're trying to find how far it is it'd have to be 90 squared x 90 squared because we don't know a length of the side
• That would equal 8,100 squared. Then it would give us 16,200
• And then we'd want to find the square root of 16,200
• Which is 127.27. So our final answer would be 127.27 feet from home plate to second base