DOB & EOF welcome Driveline Baseball Founder and Cincinnati Reds' Director of Pitching Initiatives and Pitching Coordinator, Kyle Boddy, to today's program! The trio gab over maintaining contact with players during quarantine and Boddy's impact pitchers like Trevor Bauer (and vice versa - 1:30). Boddy discusses adjusting to working within a professional baseball organization as well as his previous stints as an advisor and teaching Reds players and management gambling strategies like counting cards (9:45). The guys pinpoint a moment in baseball analytics' budding popularity that catapulted it into vogue (23:30). The Bravos Boys hone in on Braves pitching prospect, Tucker Davidson, who has made strides in his craft while working at Driveline (33:00) before tackling the evolution of Driveline, itself, and Boddy's approach to coaching (35:30). The triumvirate travel backwards in time to chat Boddy's upbringing and time before Driveline and the Reds; where he jumped from working at a pizzeria and Olive Garden, to winning (and losing) thousands of dollars in online gambling, to working at Microsoft and eventually starting, what would be, Driveline (42:30).

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