The Red Sox have made their first significant front office change of the offseason, and it almost certainly won’t be the last.
As first reported by The Boston Globe’s Alex Speier, the Red Sox have named Kyle Boddy — who spent this past season as a special advisor to chief baseball officer Craig Breslow — as their “director of baseball sciences” on an interim basis. On X, Boddy confirmed his new title and explained that the department will be tasked with “setting up the Sports Science, Biomechanics, and related divisions.”
“I am not in a place in life where I can take a full time job in baseball given family commitments and leadership of Driveline Baseball,” Boddy tweeted. “Life’s a lot different than it was in 2019 when I did it with the Cincinnati Reds. My job is to help stand up the department and step aside by the end of the year for the permanent Director.
Boddy plans on still being part of the organization in 2025 as a special advisor.
“I plan on returning to Boston as a Special Advisor in a similar role to the one I was in before this transition,” he tweeted.
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Boddy’s temporary promotion signals a re-organization of sorts in the front office. It appears this is a new position in the front office as Breslow continues to make his mark almost a year after taking over for Chaim Bloom. In 2024, the Red Sox had Brad Alberts serving as an assistant director of baseball analytics and sports science.
Boddy’s move to a more prominent role almost certainly won’t be the biggest front office change for the Red Sox this winter. Breslow has repeatedly mentioned a desire to hire a general manager as his top lieutenant, and as MassLive’s Sean McAdam reported Friday, industry buzz is that assistant GM Paul Toboni could take over in that role. McAdam also wrote that the Red Sox are looking to make a big addition to their analytics department while moving assistant GM Mike Groopman, who has been the “organization’s de facto overseer when it comes to analytics” to another role with more of a focus on player acquisition.
Boddy, 41, is the founder and owner of Driveline, a performance training system that has gained popularity in the game in recent years. Driveline, which operates a facility in Washington state, is considered by many to be a revolutionary approach to biomechanics and pitching. According to the company’s site, Driveline is the “premier data-driven baseball player development organization in the world” and trains players through “state-of-the-art motion capture assessments, physical therapy evaluations, and specialized assessment-retest based pitching, hitting and high performance coaching.”
Boddy previously worked for the Reds as their minor league director of pitching initiatives and pitching coordinator from Oct. 2019 to Sept. 2021 before leaving the organization; he was not affiliated with a club for the last two seasons.
