MS
1%er
Yeah I'm a data nerd. Spent the last ten years on data architecture, development, integration, cleansing, analysis, etc.
There has been a high demand in baseball for people with my skills. I would be helping the operations dept with all the data they get from various sources and making sense of it all.
I wish I had a story for ya but it really isn't something I'd been angling for or anything. The reds posted a job posting and I applied. I do have a bit of an edge because I used to do part time work for baseball prospectus, which is an analytics website that has produced a ton of talent that has gone on to write for high profile publications or work for major league teams. Putting that on my resume was a definite help but really it was like any other job, I just applied.
They are supposed to pick their top 2 or 3 and fly them out to Cincy next week for the in person interview so if I even get that far I'll be pretty happy.
That is seriously cool. Congrats.
Perhaps you can convince them that trading two excellent prospects for a year - when they have zero chance of making the postseason - of Yasiel Puig and replacement-level Matt Kemp is maybe not the best idea.