Caden Raymond.

I build the pipelines I used to wait on.

I grew up around Tampa, studied data analytics at Florida Poly, and now I work as a data analyst at a credit union in Lakeland. Most days that means SQL. Most nights it means whatever dataset I can't stop thinking about. Lately that's been baseball contracts and a few hundred thousand Detroit property sales. I write the SQL and Python, build the pipelines that feed the analysis, and try to end up with something worth reading. Here's what I've been working on.

A different kind of analyst.

I didn't start in analytics. I started in digital marketing, where I learned pretty quickly that a chart nobody acts on is just decoration. That stuck with me when I moved into reporting. These days I build reports for people who don't want the model, they want to know what it means, so a lot of my job is turning messy numbers into a clear answer. On my own time I chase questions I'm genuinely curious about: which MLB teams get the most out of their payroll, or what a city's property records say about how its neighborhoods are doing. Some of it's polished, some of it's still in progress, and all of it's here.


Away from the screen, I grew up skateboarding and playing soccer and football. These days it’s fingerboarding, philosophy books, and long walks with my dog, Romeo.

Case studies.

2024 · Python · pandas

Surplus Value

Which position players returned the most value above market rate? Merged Baseball Reference WAR against contract salary at $8M/WAR to isolate where clubs got production they didn't pay for.

Pre-arbitration players dominate the top 20 — and one team finished negative. View on GitHub
2026 · Python · pandas

The Cap and the Floor

MLB's proposed 2027 cap and floor, measured against real team payrolls. An initial pass using cash payroll was rebuilt on CBT-consistent figures after a framework mismatch surfaced — which reversed the headline.

Cap burden is concentrated and transactional. Floor burden is broad and structural. View on GitHub
Python · pandas · SciPy

Payroll Efficiency

Do teams that spend more actually win more? Wins per dollar across all 30 clubs, with efficiency tiers and a correlation test on the spend-to-win relationship.

r = 0.521 — real, but far from deterministic. View on GitHub

Tools of the trade.

Databases & SQL

  • SQL Server (SSMS)
  • PostgreSQL
  • PostGIS
  • Oracle

Python

  • pandas
  • Matplotlib
  • Seaborn
  • SciPy
  • pybaseball

Reporting & BI

  • SAP BusinessObjects
  • Universe Design Tool

Engineering Tools

  • Git & GitHub
  • VS Code
  • Jupyter
  • HTML & CSS

Let's talk data.

Have a question about anything here, or a data problem worth talking through? Reach out. I’m always up for a good conversation about data.