Research Output
Driveline R&D is committed to disseminating our insights to the baseball and broader sport science communities through all avenues, including formal peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and invited lectures. Below is a list of our department’s research output broken up by category.
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Publications
Kyle Wasserberger, Kevin Giordano. “Ground reaction forces in baseball pitching: temporal associations with pitch velocity among high-velocity pitchers“. In: Sport Biomechanics (2023). doi: 10.1080/14763141.2023.2284828.
D Taylor La Salle, Jason Hashimoto, Baxter Halligan, Arnel Aguinaldo, Kyle Wasserberger. “Relationship Between Athlete Performance Metrics And Pelvis Energy Flow In Adult Baseball Pitchers”. In: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (2023).
Hugo Belisario, Dan Aucoin, Alex Caravan, and Michael O’Connell. “Effects of Grip and Finger Strength on Baseball Spin Rate”. In: OSF PrePrints (2022). doi: 10.31219/osf.io/hwcpx.
Tyler Dobos, Ryan Bench, Colin McKinnon, Anthony C Brady, Kyle J Boddy, Mike Holmes, and Michael Sonne. “Validation of PITCHAI Markerless Motion Capture Using Gold Standard 3D Motion Capture”. In: SportRxiv (2022). doi: 10.51224/SRXIV.101.
Michael E O’Connell, Kyle E Lindley, John O Scheffey, Alex Caravan, Joseph A Marsh, and Anthony C Brady. “Weighted Baseball Training Affects Arm Speed without Increasing Elbow and Shoulder Joint Kinetics”. In: Journal of Applied Biomechanics (2022). doi: 10.1123/jab.2021-0339.
Anne F M J de Swart, Bart van Trigt, Kyle W Wasserberger, Marco J M Hoozemans, DirkJan H E J Veeger, and Gretchen D Oliver. “Energy flow through the lower extremities in high school baseball pitching”. In: Sports Biomechanics (2022). doi: 10.1080/14763141.2022.2129430.
Kyle W Wasserberger. “The Effect of Intensity on Overhead Throwing Mechanics”. PhD thesis. Auburn University, 2021. doi: https://etd.auburn.edu/bitstream/handle/10415/8060/kww-diss.pdf?sequence=2.
Anthony C Brady, Sam J Briend, Alex Caravan, Michael E O’Connell, Griffin Gowdey, and Kyle J Boddy. “A Kinematic and Kinetic Comparison of Mound and Rocker Throws”. In: SportRxiv (2020). doi: https: //osf.io/preprints/sportrxiv/j2tvg/download.
Kyle J Boddy, Joseph A Marsh, Alex Caravan, Kyle E Lindley, John O Scheffey, and Michael E O’Connell. “Exploring wearable sensors as an alternative to marker-based motion capture in the pitching delivery”. In: PeerJ 7.e6365 (2019). doi: 10.7717/peerj.6365.
Erin Bristow, Alex Caravan, Kyle J Boddy, Michael E O’Connell, and Sam J Briend. “Arm Stress Compar isons Between Common Baseball Pitch Types”. In: OSF PrePrints (2019). doi: https://osf.io/jxu86.
Kyle L Rogers, Alex Caravan, John O Scheffey, and Kyle J Boddy. “Surface electromyographic analysis of the serratus anterior during bench press variations”. In: SportRxiv (2019). doi: 10.31236/osf.io/cgfwh.
Alex Caravan, Sam J Briend, and Kyle J Boddy. “Surface electromyographic analysis of differential effects in kettlebell carries for the serratus anterior muscles”. In: PeerJ 6.e5044 (2018). doi: 10.7717/peerj.5044.
Joseph A Marsh, Matthew Wagshol, Kyle J Boddy, Alex Caravan, Kyle E Lindley, John O Scheffey, and Michael E O’Connell. “Effect of a six-week weighted implement throwing program on pitching velocity, arm kinematics, arm stress, and arm laxity”. In: PeerJ 6.e6003 (2018). doi: 10.7717/peerj.6003.
Conference Abstracts
Arnel Aguinaldo. “Predicting Hitting Power using Energy Flow Analysis in High School, Collegiate, and Professional Baseball Players”. In: Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference. 2023.
Kevin A Giordano, Adam Barrack, Kyle W Wasserberger, William H Murrah, Andy Karduna, and Lori Michener. “The usage and acceptability of data normalization in baseball pitching”. In: International Society of Biomechanics in Sport Annual Conference. 2023.
Jason Hashimoto, D Taylor La Salle, Avery Takata, Arnel Aguinaldo, and Kyle W Wasserberger. “Energy flow and ground reaction force predictors of bat swing speed during pitched ball batting professional baseball players”. In: International Society of Biomechanics in Sport Annual Conference. 2023.
D Taylor La Salle, Jason Hashimoto, Baxter Halligan, Arnel Aguinaldo, and Kyle W Wasserberger. “Relationship between Athlete Performance Metrics and Pelvis Energy Flow in Adult Baseball Pitchers”. In: American College of Sports Medicine Annual Conference. 2023
John Asel. “Meta-Pitch Tracking: Measuring Ballpark Tracking Error by Release Point Variance”. In: Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference. 2022.
Kevin Covarrubias, Michael Pohl, Ben Jones, and Anthony C Brady. “Torso and Pelvis Biomechanics Asso ciated with Pitch Velocity in Baseball”. In: University of Pudget Sound Summer Quest 2022. 2022.
Dan Aucoin. “Using Paired Inertial Measurement Unit Data for Improved Player Development”. In: American Baseball Biomechanics Society Annual Conference. 2020.
Alex Caravan and David Besky. “Swing Adjustments”. In: Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference. 2020. doi: https://sabr.org/latest/2020-sabr-analytics-conference-research-presentations/.
Invited Presentations
Alex Caravan and Kyle W Wasserberger. “The Next Frontier of Biomechanics in Baseball: Deception, Pitch Tipping, and Mechanical Evaluation”. In: Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference. 2023.
Kyle W Wasserberger. “Energy generation, absorption, and transfer through the throwing arm in baseball pitching”. In: International Society of Biomechanics in Sport Midyear Symposium. 2023
Dan Aucoin. “The Technical Side of Being an Analyst”. In: Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference. 2022. doi: https://sabr.org/latest/2022-sabr-virtual-analytics-conference-the-technical-side-of being-an-analyst/.
Kyle J Boddy. “Baseball and Golf: Data-Driven Overlap and Insights”. In: World Scientific Congress of Golf. 2022.
Kyle J Boddy, Joseph A Marsh, and Anthony C Brady. “Applied Biomechanics for Skill Development”. In: Wake Forest Annual Bridge Seminar. 2022.
Anthony C Brady. “Application of Baseball Biomechanics to Individual Athlete Development”. In: Interna tional Socienty of Biomechanics in Sport Annual Conference. 2022.
Anthony C Brady. “Leveraging Biomechanics for Player Development”. In: World Pitching Congress Annual Conference. 2022.
Anthony C Brady. “What’s Wrong with Pitching Mechanics: Challenges for the Next 25 Years”. In: American Sports Medicine Institute Injuries in Baseball Annual Conference. 2022.
Kyle W Wasserberger. “Leveraging Biomechanics for Player Development”. In: British Association for Sport and Exercise Science Annual Conference. 2022.
Anthony C Brady. “Baseball Biomechanics in Industry”. In: American Baseball Biomechanics Society Annual Conference. 2020.
Anthony C Brady. “Weighted Balls Round Table”. In: Conte Sport Performance Therapy Baseball Injuries Annual Conference. 2020.
Popular Books
Deven Morgan, Ben Harley, and Michael O’Connell. Youth Practice Games: Skills that Scale. 2021.
Kyle J Boddy and Matt Daniels. Hacking the Kinetic Chain. 2014.