Hello and welcome to a special edition of Rates and Burials.

Today we have co-parent of Stuff Plus Max Bay on the line.

Max is back with us in the public sphere.

Say hello, Max.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Hi, everybody.

How you know?

Lifelong baseball fan.

I did a PhD in neuroscience from 2015 to 2022, which tells you something about how terrible

PhD can be. But while I was there, I'm doing a lot of high dimensional statistics and modeling,

machine learning, et cetera. And my baseball enthusiasm kind of bled over into, you know, my analytical work and vice versa.

And kind of just, you know, a hobby grew out of that. It's like a tale is oldest time at this point.

So, you know, a lot of the public work that was out there, I read things that I found particularly interesting.

I want to understand thoroughly. I tried to replicate. And yeah, that sort of just blossomed

into a more, I guess, serious pursuit of answering baseball questions and coming up with baseball

questions. That's pretty much it. So yeah, that's like the back story.

And one day somebody from a team from the Astros reached out to me and had a really compelling

conversation about, you know, what it would be like working for a team, what it would be

like, you know, in the organization, et cetera.

And so did that for a little while, really loved it.

But for a number of reasons, I decided to leave and now sort of in a non-baseball role for

the first time in a while.

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