When his professional playing career wound down, Christian did what most former players eventually do: he got a desk job. Meetings. Spreadsheets. Fluorescent lights. And a creeping certainty that something essential had been left behind on a diamond somewhere.
He started asking a different question. Not how do I get comfortable here? But what do I actually know better than anyone?
The answer was immediate: baseball. Specifically, what a bat should feel like, how it should be built, and why so much of what was available to serious players fell short of what the game actually demands. That frustration became the fuel.