New York Yankees broke the Brewers 20-9 Milwaukee on Saturday and hit a new circuits in the rout.
During the match, the broadcasting, yes, noted that some Yankees players used torpedo bats.
So what are they?
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The New York Anthony Volpe Yankees Artstop follows a swing using a torpedo bat during the first round against the Brewers of Milwaukee at Yankee Stadium on March 30, 2025 (Brad Penner / Imagn images)
Torpille bats have the baton in a different location. Instead of being at the end of the bat, the barrel is closer to the handle, which gives the bat a shape of bowling bowling. Some players come into contact with the ball more on the label instead of the traditional baton of the bat. Torpille’s bats move the barrel to the label, so when they come into contact, they more barred baseball.
Unique battles have dominated the conversation between players and fans this weekend after the offensive eruption of the Yankees.
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“I think it’s terrible,” said the Brewers Trevor Megill relief to the New York Post. “We will see what the data say. I have never seen anything like this before. I have the impression that it is something usefulness in Slo-Net softball. It is a genius: put the mass in the same place. It could be Bush [league]. It may not be. But these are the Yankees, so they will let him slide. “”
Kevin Smith, who spent time with the Yankees last season, went to X to give credit to Aaron Leanhardt for the innovative bat.
“Yes, the Yankees have a physicist for the MIT of literal genius, Lenny (who is the man), on the pay. He invented the barrel ‘Torpedo’. He brings more wood – and mass – at the place where you most often establish contact like a striker.
Leanhardt, 48, holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a doctorate. In MIT physics and was a professor of physics in Michigan from 2007 to 2014.
New York Yankees second goal player, Jazz Chisholm Jr., holds his torpedo bat while watching a three -point home run against Brewers Milwaukee at the seventh round at the Yankee Stadium on March 30, 2025. (Brad Penner / Imagn images)
Leanhardt joined the Yankees in 2018 after training at Atlantic League and Montana Community College in 2017.
“It is simply a question of making the bat as heavy and as oily as possible in the area where you try to do damage on baseball,” said Leanhardt about the Batte de Torpille via athletics.
“There were certainly major league players who swung him in the big leagues in 2023,” Leanhardt told journalists on Monday. “As well as some minor league players who balanced it in real baseball matches in 2023, and that made a little built throughout 2024 in what it is today.”
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Leanhardt is now a member of the Miami Marlins as a field coordinator after leaving the Yankees after six years as an analyst of major leagues. Although he is no longer with the team, four of the regular Yankees beginners use the batdo.
First goal player Paul Goldschmidt, central defender Cody Bellinger, the second Jazz Chisholm Jr. Base Player and the Anthony Volpe Corner Cops all use the Batpedo. Giancarlo Stanton does not.
The New York Yankees workforce, Anthony Volpe, follows a swing using a torpedo bat during the first round against Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium on March 30, 2025. (Brad Penner / Imagn images)
Yankees voltijouriser, Jasson Domínguez, told journalists that Stanton used a torpedo bat last season when he crushed seven circuits in 14 games in the playoffs during the Yankees race at the World Series.
However, Yankees are not the only team to use bats. The MLB social media account published a brief X -Bat Explanteer on the Torpille Bat and has highlighted four players from four teams that use them.
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The four illustrated players who use the bat are the New York Mets Francisco Lindor, the first Tampa Bay Rays Yandy Díaz, Anthony Volpe’s first base player and the Minnesota Ryan Jeffers. The third basic Junior Caminero player and the third basic Phillies player, Alec Bohm, used them.
Cincinnati Reds Elly’s Cincinnati stop decided to try the Torpille bat in the Reds match on Monday against the Texas Rangers after watching the offensive assault of the Yankees.
De la Cruz went 4-5 with two circuits, a double and seven points produced in the Reds 14-3 victory against the Rangers.
The third goal of Philadelphia Phillies, Alec Bohm, uses a torpedo bat during the sixth round against Colorado rockies in Citizens Bank Park on March 31, 2025. (Eric Hartline / Imagn Images)
“I just wanted to know if it was good,” said Cruz via athletics, “and this is really the case.”
The bats are legal.
The MLB 3.02 rule declares: “The bat must be a smooth round stick no more than 2.61 inches in diameter with the thickest part and no more than 42 inches in length. The bat must be a piece of solid wood.”
The rule also indicates that “experimental” bats cannot be used “until the manufacturer has obtained approval from the major baseball league of its design and manufacturing methods.”
Leanhardt said he “guaranteed” that he was on the basis of first name with MLB officials who oversee the BAT regulations.
While the teams and the players wanted to be for sure to get their hands on the torpedo bat, some players are content with what they used.
When the Captain of the Yankees and the double winner of the MVP Aaron Judge asked why he had not tried the new torpedo bat, he replied: “What I did in the last two seasons speaks of himself.”
New York Yankees second goal player, Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13), uses a torpedo bat during the first round against Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium on March 30, 2025. (Brad Penner / Imagn images)
Reds manager Terry Francona said it was perhaps not the bats that led to the new Yankees record.
“I don’t have a big opinion. I think if you go back and look where some of these locations were (thrown against the Yankees), it may not be the bat,” Francona told The Athletic.
