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The New York Yankees officially launched the "t o rpedo bat" era over the weekend -- with multiple players using a modified baseball bat during the team’s historic offensive onslaught in its opening ...
From NBC New York
New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine home runs that traveled a combined 3,695 feet on Saturday.
From Chicago Tribune
Aaron Judge homered in his first at-bat, Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered twice and the New York Yankees went deep four more times in a 12-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, a day after becoming...
From U.S. News & World Report
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The person holding court for Monday afternoon’s largest media scrum wasn’t superstars Juan Soto or Francisco Lindor, but newly nicknamed “El Torpedo.” Aaron Leanhardt, the Marlins’ unassuming field coordinator,
For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it’s more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate.
Yankees are using a strikingly different model bat in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label, which shapes the end a little like a bowling pin.