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MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming

You score 20 runs, hit 9 bombs, and people start asking questions. That’s exactly what happened to the Yankees on Saturday after they revealed the "torpedo

The Yankees have apparently been working with Aaron Leanhardt (aka “ Lenny ”), a former MIT physicist turned baseball brain, who helped re-engineer the traditional wooden bat to better match where individual hitters make the most consistent contact. Instead of the typical bat tapering evenly toward the end, the “torpedo” design fattens up closer to the handle, where players like Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr. naturally tend to make contact. But when the Yankees launched nine home runs—a franchise record, mind you—amid a 20-9 beatdown of Milwaukee, the league should probably take some extra time and better understand what’s going on with this baseball bat and the future impact on the game itself moving forward.

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