Research & Development
The Team
The R&D Team consists of four departments:
Baseball Operations: Responsible for researching and building baseball related insights and tools to evaluate and assess athletes at all levels of the game.
Data Science: Responsible for maintaining databases, generating insights from Driveline’s wealth of data, as well as creating reports and dashboards for both skill coaches and business departments alike.
Software: Responsible for building and supporting the systems used by data-driven coaches and players.
Sports Science: Responsible for evaluating and researching training methods and advising coaches on implementation.
The Driveline Baseball R&D team is also supported by other employees and internal contractors. Additionally, we have an informal advisory board of orthopedic surgeons, expert biomechanists, kinesiologists, quantitative analysts, and exercise scientists we consult with on a regular basis to guide the mission of the department.
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Kyle Boddy
Founder, CTO, Director of R&D
Garrett York
Director of Software Engineering
Max Engelbrekt
Director, Product Management - Software
Joe Marsh
Principal Engineer
Jack Lambert
Director of Baseball Operations
Theo Reid
Assistant Director of R&D
Jorge Diaz
Software Engineer II
Sam Kishline
Software Engineer III
Conner Pelletier
Forward Deployed Engineer - AZ
Alex Britton
Forward Deployed Engineer - FL
Logan Kniss
Sports Science Engineer
Adam Bloebaum
R&D Engineer
Marek Ramilo
R&D Analyst
Josh Hejka
R&D Engineer
Clayton Thompson
R&D Engineer
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.
Publications
Kyle Wasserberger, Kevin Giordano. "Ground reaction forces in baseball pitching: temporal associations with pitch velocity among high-velocity pitchers." Sport Biomechanics (2023). doi.org/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." Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (2023).
Hugo Belisario, Dan Aucoin, Alex Caravan, Michael O'Connell. "Effects of Grip and Finger Strength on Baseball Spin Rate." OSF PrePrints (2022). doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hwcpx
Tyler Dobos, Ryan Bench, Colin McKinnon, Anthony C Brady, Kyle J Boddy, Mike Holmes, Michael Sonne. "Validation of PITCHAI Markerless Motion Capture Using Gold Standard 3D Motion Capture." SportRxiv (2022). doi.org/10.51224/SRXIV.101
Michael E O'Connell, Kyle E Lindley, John O Scheffey, Alex Caravan, Joseph A Marsh, Anthony C Brady. "Weighted Baseball Training Affects Arm Speed without Increasing Elbow and Shoulder Joint Kinetics." Journal of Applied Biomechanics (2022). doi.org/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, Gretchen D Oliver. "Energy flow through the lower extremities in high school baseball pitching." Sports Biomechanics (2022). doi.org/10.1080/14763141.2022.2129430
Kyle W Wasserberger. "The Effect of Intensity on Overhead Throwing Mechanics." PhD thesis, Auburn University (2021). Read the thesis
Anthony C Brady, Sam J Briend, Alex Caravan, Michael E O'Connell, Griffin Gowdey, Kyle J Boddy. "A Kinematic and Kinetic Comparison of Mound and Rocker Throws." SportRxiv (2020). Read the paper
Kyle J Boddy, Joseph A Marsh, Alex Caravan, Kyle E Lindley, John O Scheffey, Michael E O'Connell. "Exploring wearable sensors as an alternative to marker-based motion capture in the pitching delivery." PeerJ 7.e6365 (2019). doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6365
Erin Bristow, Alex Caravan, Kyle J Boddy, Michael E O'Connell, Sam J Briend. "Arm Stress Comparisons Between Common Baseball Pitch Types." OSF PrePrints (2019). Read the paper
Kyle L Rogers, Alex Caravan, John O Scheffey, Kyle J Boddy. "Surface electromyographic analysis of the serratus anterior during bench press variations." SportRxiv (2019). doi.org/10.31236/osf.io/cgfwh
Alex Caravan, Sam J Briend, Kyle J Boddy. "Surface electromyographic analysis of differential effects in kettlebell carries for the serratus anterior muscles." PeerJ 6.e5044 (2018). doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5044
Joseph A Marsh, Matthew Wagshol, Kyle J Boddy, Alex Caravan, Kyle E Lindley, John O Scheffey, Michael E O'Connell. "Effect of a six-week weighted implement throwing program on pitching velocity, arm kinematics, arm stress, and arm laxity." PeerJ 6.e6003 (2018). doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6003
Conference Abstracts
Arnel Aguinaldo. "Predicting Hitting Power using Energy Flow Analysis in High School, Collegiate, and Professional Baseball Players." Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference (2023).
Kevin A Giordano, Adam Barrack, Kyle W Wasserberger, William H Murrah, Andy Karduna, Lori Michener. "The usage and acceptability of data normalization in baseball pitching." International Society of Biomechanics in Sport Annual Conference (2023).
Jason Hashimoto, D Taylor La Salle, Avery Takata, Arnel Aguinaldo, Kyle W Wasserberger. "Energy flow and ground reaction force predictors of bat swing speed during pitched ball batting professional baseball players." International Society of Biomechanics in Sport Annual Conference (2023).
D Taylor La Salle, Jason Hashimoto, Baxter Halligan, Arnel Aguinaldo, Kyle W Wasserberger. "Relationship between Athlete Performance Metrics and Pelvis Energy Flow in Adult Baseball Pitchers." American College of Sports Medicine Annual Conference (2023).
John Asel. "Meta-Pitch Tracking: Measuring Ballpark Tracking Error by Release Point Variance." Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference (2022).
Kevin Covarrubias, Michael Pohl, Ben Jones, Anthony C Brady. "Torso and Pelvis Biomechanics Associated with Pitch Velocity in Baseball." University of Puget Sound Summer Quest (2022).
Dan Aucoin. "Using Paired Inertial Measurement Unit Data for Improved Player Development." American Baseball Biomechanics Society Annual Conference (2020).
Alex Caravan, David Besky. "Swing Adjustments." Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference (2020). Read the presentation
Invited Presentations
Alex Caravan, Kyle W Wasserberger. "The Next Frontier of Biomechanics in Baseball: Deception, Pitch Tipping, and Mechanical Evaluation." Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference (2023).
Kyle W Wasserberger. "Energy generation, absorption, and transfer through the throwing arm in baseball pitching." International Society of Biomechanics in Sport Midyear Symposium (2023).
Dan Aucoin. "The Technical Side of Being an Analyst." Society for American Baseball Research Annual Conference (2022). Read the presentation
Kyle J Boddy. "Baseball and Golf: Data-Driven Overlap and Insights." World Scientific Congress of Golf (2022).
Kyle J Boddy, Joseph A Marsh, Anthony C Brady. "Applied Biomechanics for Skill Development." Wake Forest Annual Bridge Seminar (2022).
Anthony C Brady. "Application of Baseball Biomechanics to Individual Athlete Development." International Society of Biomechanics in Sport Annual Conference (2022).
Anthony C Brady. "Leveraging Biomechanics for Player Development." World Pitching Congress Annual Conference (2022).
Anthony C Brady. "What's Wrong with Pitching Mechanics: Challenges for the Next 25 Years." American Sports Medicine Institute Injuries in Baseball Annual Conference (2022).
Kyle W Wasserberger. "Leveraging Biomechanics for Player Development." British Association for Sport and Exercise Science Annual Conference (2022).
Anthony C Brady. "Baseball Biomechanics in Industry." American Baseball Biomechanics Society Annual Conference (2020).
Anthony C Brady. "Weighted Balls Round Table." Conte Sport Performance Therapy Baseball Injuries Annual Conference (2020).
Publications
Deven Morgan, Ben Harley, Michael O'Connell. Youth Practice Games: Skills that Scale. 2021.
Kyle J Boddy, Matt Daniels. Hacking the Kinetic Chain. 2014.
Research Partners
Collaborations
Our extensive paired datasets and recurring access to a high volume of athletes across all ages and competition levels allow us to explore an almost inexhaustible range of research questions.
That's where you come in.
Science is collaborative by nature. Driveline R&D frequently partners with members of academia and industry to design and conduct research projects we wouldn't otherwise have the time to pursue.
If you're a student (graduate or undergraduate), postdoc, professor, MD, or surgeon looking for your next research project to push baseball forward in biomechanics, high performance, or analytics — reach out to us at support@drivelinebaseball.com to see how we can help.
