MLB commissioner Rob Manfred supported the so-called torpedoes, who caught the attention of baseball fans and experts since the start of the 2025 season.
The bats were highlighted during the New York Yankees opening match against Milwaukee Brewers. The eyebrows were raised more when New York crushed nine circuits against the Brewers in the second game of the season.
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The New Yankees Anthony Volpe Battes Yankees with one of the team-shaped bats in a match against the Milwaukee Brewers on March 29, 2025 in New York. (APPHOTE / Angelina Katsanis)
Since then, players have started using bats, even if the launchers have complained. But Manfred supported its use in a recent interview.
“I believe that problems like the Batte de Torpille and the debate around him demonstrate the fact that baseball always occupies a unique place in our culture, because people enter a full frenzy on something that is really nothing at the end of the day. Channels respect the rules,” he told New York Times.
Manfred added that “players have really moved the Sweet Spot in bats for years” and underlined the debate on the fact that baseball is being noted and attendance.
Commissioner MLB ROB Manfred (Photos Mike Carlson / MLB via Getty Images / File)
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The temple of renowned baseball, Fergie Jenkins, also weighed the debate in an interview on “The Ricky Cobb Show” in Outkick.
“Well, when you watch the game when I played in the 60s, 70s, 80s, the launcher was almost dominant, and now we are like second-class citizens. Everything has been made for the shot. As, you say that the bases are larger, you have an over-glove, which gives you three inch in the bag before launching it,” said Jenkins.
In addition to the rule changes that promote strikers, Jenkins said that Torpille bats are just the last thing in baseball that will help them.
“There is more than one striking surface for the shot, and I think it could increase the average of the strikers a little, but you will get a better piece of wood on the ball and the ball may travel a little further,” he said.
Baseball Torpedo bats are exhibited in Victus Sports at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, April 2, 2025. (AP photo / Matt Rourke)
“Who knows? Two additional shots, and now a striker sees one of his teammates using it. Now he wants to use it. I can believe before the breaking of the stars, each ball club will have half a dozen strikers using this bat.”
