The biggest story of the weekend of the opening day of the MLB was the New York Mashant Yankees the Brewers of Milwaukee, and some of them in fine stripes used “torpedo bats”, which caused a viral sensation.
Massive debate on Torpille bats, which have a barrel more towards the middle of the bat rather than at the end, filled the social networks while the Yankees filled the seats in the outside with baseball balls. They struck a team record nine circuits in the 20-9 victory in their second game of the season, and a few others were affected in the rout 13-2 the next day.
While some saw it as cheating, the bat was legal within the framework of the MLB rules book. However, some launchers were not too happy, including the relief of Brasseurs Trevor Megill, who saw his teammates have problems throughout the weekend.
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New York Yankees second goal player, Jazz Chisholm Jr., # 13, bat using a torpedo bat during the first round against the Brewers of Milwaukee at Yankee Stadium on March 30, 2025. (Images of Brad Penner-Imagn)
“I think it’s terrible,” he said, via 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. “”
CC Sabathia was in the Yankees spring training while watching strikers like Jazz Chisholm Jr., Cody Bellinger and Anthony Volpe using bats. As a former launcher himself – he was elected to the temple of national baseball renown earlier this year – Sabathia’s thoughts on the issue have weight.
It seems to be everything for that.
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“I think it’s great,” he told PK Press Club Digital by discussing his partnership with Xyzal at the start of the new season. “I think that so many things have been innovative for launchers. We have so many things where the things are improving, the guys are throwing stronger than ever. To see some of these strikers take some advantage – not even with Torpille bats.
“If all this helps, I think that for a long time, we have been trying to understand how to recover in the game. Replace the mound of the launcher, enlarge the baseball, all these different things to come back. You know how good the pitching is. We get a good thing for strikers and then everyone. But everyone has panicked because it was the Yankees.”
The Yankees were not the only team with players using these bats. Francisco Lindor from New York Mets, Alec Bohm by Philadelphia Phillies and Nico Hoerner of the Chicago Cubs were among the other viewed teams using the different bat to start the 2025 campaign.
The third goal of Philadelphia Phillies, Alec Bohm, # 28, uses a torpedo bat during the sixth round against the Colorado rockies in Citizens Bank Park on March 31, 2025. (Images Eric Hartline-Imagn)
Sabathia, however, was able to attend the assault on the Yankees offense last Saturday, when they illuminated their former teammate, Nestor Cortes Jr.
However, while bats catch the flak for this performance, Sabathia thinks that it is the pitch of the Brewers that should be blamed.
“For me, I was in the match when Nestor started the other day when they hit the nine circuits. It was exciting, but when I returned and was sitting at home watching the match, each of these launched land was just in the middle,” he said. “So, I don’t know if it was Torpille’s Bat or Brewers Tanging, but these land that I would probably have been able to have a blow that day.”
The debate can continue over the season, but as long as it is in the rules, Sabathia is all for that, even if some of its comrades prefer to see traditional barrels on bats go ahead.
Fight allergies with Xyzal
During his illustrious career, allergies have always been something that Sabathia was to worry about. As much, spring can be difficult with allergy symptoms with the change of season, and Sabathia used to need a team’s medical staff to cope.
Now retired, the luxury of a team of doctors and staff has disappeared, and Sabathia needed to find the right drugs to fight these symptoms, especially with golf being his last sporting passion.
Xyzal, with whom he is now in partnership, was the perfect remedy.
CC Sabathia gave its point of view on viral bats that New York Yankees made famous during the weekend of the opening day of the MLB. (Imagn)
“My allergies were horrible all my life. When I was a child, I went to school with toilet rolls,” he said, laughing. “My allergies were great, super bad. … So, the first thing I was trying to find different things. I came across Xyzal and I understood that you could take it at night.”
Now Sabathia, as well as her 14 -year -old son, Carter, have been part of their night routine to make sure they can spend the baseball season without these annoying allergy symptoms.
