while so many people consider baseball to be boring, slow, and pointless, they don't realize just how much precise calculations and split second decisions the players have to make.
The hardest part of baseball by for is actually hitting the ball. the chance of hitting an MLB fast ball, which travels between 90-100 MILES PER HOUR! Think about it, you're hitting something the size of an apple with a thin wooden stick. The best batters will have a hitting ratio of around 0.4, which means for every 1000 balls pitched, 400 are hit. Keep in mind 0.4 is a very extremely high number, a pretty good batter will have a batting average of 0.35. This is down to facts, "The batter must judge the trajectory of the ball...decide to swing or not...how he will swing... this takes time and judgment - GOOD judgement" (Adair 38). I had no idea, I honestly thought batters just took a swing at it (literally HA get it?) and hoped for the best. But there is actually a lot of thought process that goes into batting. With very limited time, "the time it takes to blink, a fast ball can be half way to the batter" (Adair 39). It takes a fast ball 0.4 seconds to reach home plate, I wonder why the call it a fast ball. Knowing this I want to try and react to something in .4 seconds, to do this I learned in physics a procedure to judging reaction times.
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