Kyle Boddy

Kyle Boddy (born 1983) is an American baseball pitching trainer and consultant. He is the founder and owner of the baseball performance training system Driveline Baseball, which uses a sabermetric approach to increase pitching velocity and improve conditioning.

Early life and education Boddy was born and raised in Parma, Ohio. He attended Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, where he studied computer science and economics before ultimately dropping out.

Career Data science and coaching After college, Boddy worked exposing security flaws at PokerStars, an online poker site; at Microsoft for a year; and in various data science jobs. Reading Michael Lewis' 2003 book Moneyball, about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's sabermetric approach to assembling his team, inspired Boddy to start researching and testing player development methods. Driveline also works with high schools across the United States, Driveline uses Rapsodo's pitch-tracking camera and TrackMan technology, which uses a military-grade 3D Doppler radar system to capture 20,000 measurements per second, to track a baseball's movement. In June 2020, Boddy opened the second Driveline location in Arizona. In early 2021, Boddy opened the third location in Texas

Books In 2013, Boddy published The Dynamic Pitcher, a training guide tailored to youth baseball pitchers. The following year, he published Hacking the Kinetic Chain, a guide to developing pitching velocity. On September 17, 2021, it was announced that they "mutually agreed to no longer continue their professional relationship" with the Cincinnati Reds. He now consults for the Boston Red Sox.