The short, tumultuous working life of a major league baseball pitcher
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 04:10
in Psychology & Sociology
There are pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) who have had 30-year careers, but as UC Riverside demographer David Swanson points out, these are extreme outliers and often the stars of the game who receive most of the media's attention. The reality for most pitchers in baseball is that their professional working lives are surprisingly short—3.99 years on average—according to a new method of calculating working life expectancies.