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Trevor Bauer, a pitcher known for his many quirks and individuality in how he approaches the game of baseball, is undeniably a smart dude. No matter what hot takes you have about the results or how he handles himself between starts: The guy puts in a tremendous of amount of work learning about every aspect of the game he plays for a living.
A big part of that is, of course, math. Trevor has recorded entire vlogs dedicated to talking about the math and science behind pitching, and his Twitter timeline is often times steeped in math theory about drones and/or baseball. So when a fan on Twitter asked him a question about her math test, he was quick to help out as best he could.
The interaction did not start with the fan, Maddie Martin, outright asking Trevor to answer her math test question for her, but about the most Trevor Bauer thing possible — drones.
@BauerOutage when you are in Ohio where do you fly your drone+ how much did your drone cost?
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
Trevor, being a very open personality on Twitter, helped her out right away.
@m_martin2021 I find a park with no people at it and depending what gear I have on it between 350 and 1000 ish each
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
After a little bit of back-and-forth about the type of drones Trevor uses (and some shaking on the part of an excited Ms. Martin), the all-important question was asked that led to one of my favorite Twitter exchanges ever:
@BauerOutage oh and also do you understand the slope of a line and y intercept? I have a math test coming up I don't get certain things
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 what's the question
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage I'm not home but I'll try to remember it's like y•2=x and you have to graph it on the line and say the y intercept
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 for every 1 unit on the x axis go 2 units on the y axis. y intercept is where it crosses the y axis. Make y 0 and figure x.
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage ok so I checked the website on my phone and I will get 2/5 as the slope but the right answer is 2 so I will put 2& its wrong
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 how do you come up with 2/5?
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage there are like 2 points on a graph and you find out the slope of the 2 points and you would move up 2 and over 5 to get to the
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 might just be a flaw in the website then. That happens sometimes
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage yeah maybe,I'm in the edge of strongsville and I live in Brunswick hills so I'm almost there I'll get the exact questions then
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage the question is y-8=x and it says to plot (-2,6) (0,8) (2,10) and I don't get where they got that pic.twitter.com/CKOEE7rTq4
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 (-4,4) also works, as does (5,13) etc
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
@BauerOutage ooohhh I think I got it now thank you so much
— Maddie Martin (@m_martin2021) November 12, 2016
@m_martin2021 hope that helped!
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
Happy I could help! Good luck on the test! https://t.co/ufElqh7i6m
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) November 12, 2016
The best part? The two made it through the whole interaction without a single turd telling Trevor he should be “focusing on baseball” at 9:30 p.m. on a Friday night. Way to go, world.