Every team and player in MLB using new 'torpedo' bat
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Some players are ready to experiment with the torpedo bats. Others are quick to call them a scourge.
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New York faced the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday in its fourth game of the season and wasted no time making early noise with solo home runs from Jasson Domínguez in the third inning and Anthony Vol...
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I love the Torpedo Bats.
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Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not.
Players are intrigued. Reds star Elly De La Cruz tried it Monday and crushed the ball. One bat-maker contends Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton’s seven-HR barrage in last year’s playoffs was with a torpedo. The early version of the backstory is amazing: An MIT physicist-turned-baseball coach, Aaron Leanhardt, made an observation:
Players expected to use a Torpedo Bat tonight: Elly De La Cruz (CIN) Jose Trevino (CIN) Dansby Swanson (CHC) Nico Hoerner (CHC) Ryan Jeffers (MIN) Francisco Lindor (NYM) Anthony Volpe (NYY) Austin Wells (NYY) Cody Bellinger (NYY) Jazz Chisholm Jr. (NYY) Paul Goldschmidt (NYY)…
Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the oddly-shaped bats and why they're legal.
Players outside the Bronx who have tried out the bats this season include the Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz and Jose Trevino, Baltimore Orioles' Adley Rutschman, New York Mets' Francisco Lindor, Chicago Cubs' Dansby Swanson, Toronto Blue Jays' Davis Schneider and Tampa Bay Rays' Junior Caminero, according to Yahoo Sports' Chris Cwik.
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Torpedo bats are all the rage around Major League Baseball this week, but are they here to stay? The Yankees’ power display over the weekend \-\- New York hit 15 home runs in a three-game home sweep o
At that point, the Yankees were already four home runs into a historic nine-homer barrage that resulted in a 20-9 blowout. They concluded the three-game sweep with 15 homers to tie the MLB record for the most long balls through a team's first three games.