Kyle Boddy

In October 2019, Boddy was hired by the Cincinnati Reds to be their Minor League Director of Pitching Initiatives/Pitching Coordinator. Other MLB teams had pursued him as well. Boddy continues to remain affiliated with Driveline.

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.

Boddy founded Driveline Baseball in 2012. At its training facility in Kent, Washington, Boddy coaches amateur and pro pitchers from a variety of levels on ways to increase their velocity and improve their conditioning. Major League Baseball clients include Trevor Bauer, Dan Straily, Caleb Cotham, Chris Capuano, Joe Beimel and Matt Boyd. Boddy has worked as a consultant and pre-draft analyst for MLB teams including the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cleveland Indians, and as a consultant for college programs including Vanderbilt, Oregon State and Coastal Carolina, which won the 2016 College World Series. Driveline also works with high schools across the United States, and offers camps in Washington state for pitchers as young as 9 years-old.

The first MLB player to work with Driveline was Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer, who had achieved his own success in gaining velocity and was looking to improve his command. Bauer's fastball is considered to be among the hardest in baseball. Boddy and Bauer met in 2012, after Boddy presented his pitching research at the Texas Baseball Ranch in Montgomery, Texas. Bauer, who was in attendance, appreciated the science of Boddy's presentation. After struggling in Triple-A Columbus in 2013, Bauer began to train with Boddy at Driveline Baseball in Seattle prior to the 2014 season. Although Boddy's system was at first met with resistance from baseball insiders, it has since 2014 been steadily getting more recognition and approval.

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 his lab, and incorporating research from University of Hawaii professor Coop DeRenne, Boddy found that throwing with underweight and overweight baseballs would have a significant effect on velocity improvements, and that more throwing leads to healthier arms, as long as it's done with proper mechanics and sufficient recovery.

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.

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