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. He also coached baseball at Roosevelt High School in Seattle for two years. 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 Baseball In 2008, Boddy started a blog called Driveline Mechanics. It relied heavily on the theories of former Major League Baseball pitcher Mike Marshall. To test out his own theories, Boddy created his own biomechanics lab in Seattle, which included high-speed cameras, EMG sensors, force plates, inertial measurement units, and a device to measure elbow torque. Through research in