Brudnicki: Life after baseball
From Alexis Brudnicki at FanGraphs on March 16, 2018:
Baseball has a life of its own.
When players are immersed in that life, most often they’re focused on the task at hand, the path ahead, and the game they love. There are some who think beyond the season, or their current contract, and try to make plans for a future without the game. The truth is, though, it can be really hard to think about a life beyond the only one players have ever known.
According to a 10-year-old study from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the average Major League Baseball career lasts 5.6 years, with one in five position players lasting only a single season in the majors. The study also indicated that, at every point of a player’s career, the chance of it ending entirely is at least 11%.
Baseball’s average career length is also the longest among the four major sports, with the average NFL career lasting 3.5 years, an NBA career 4.8 years, and the NHL next-longest at 5.5, according to information obtained by the RAM Financial group a decade ago.
Read the full article here: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/life-after-baseball-part-1/
Originally published: March 16, 2018. Last Updated: March 16, 2018.