Brewers' Trevor Megill rails against Yankees' newly designed 'torpedo' bats: 'I think it's terrible'

Several New York Yankees utilized redesigned bats during the team's season-opening bid against the Milwaukee Brewers. 

The caller plan places the tube person to the hands alternatively of the much modular placement toward the extremity of the bat. Brewers person Trevor Megill took contented with the usage of the "torpedo" bats and shared his frustrations aft New York scored 20 runs connected Saturday en way to a blowout triumph implicit Milwaukee.

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Jazz Chisholm Jr. #13 of the New York Yankees celebrates with Anthony Volpe #11 aft hitting a third-inning location tally against the Milwaukee Brewers astatine Yankee Stadium connected March 29, 2025, successful New York City. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

The Yankees deed a franchise-record 9 location runs during the 20-9 win. Megill railed against the bats, arguing they were "terrible," but besides admitting they were a "genius" idea.

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"I deliberation it’s terrible,’" the Brewers alleviation pitcher told The New York Post. "We’ll spot what the information says. I’ve ne'er seen thing similar it before. I consciousness similar it’s thing utilized successful slo-pitch softball. It’s genius: Put the wide each successful 1 spot. It mightiness beryllium bush [league]. It mightiness not be. But it’s the Yankees, truthful they’ll fto it slide."

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Trevor Megill throws successful the bullpen during outpouring grooming workouts, February 15, 2025, successful Phoenix. (Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The signifier of the bat is wrong the scope of league rules, making it permissible. 

According to MLB Rule 3.02, "The bat shall beryllium a smooth, circular instrumentality not much than 2.61 inches successful diameter astatine the thickest portion and not much than 42 inches successful length. The bat shall beryllium 1 portion of coagulated wood." Furthermore, the "experimental" bats can't beryllium utilized "until the shaper has secured support from Major League Baseball of his plan and methods of manufacture."

Anthony Volpe of the New York Yankees hits a solo location tally successful the 2nd inning during the crippled betwixt the Milwaukee Brewers, March 27, 2025, successful New York. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Other players successful the Brewers' clubhouse countered Megill's position, with archetypal baseman Rhys Hoskins suggesting the plan near him intrigued.

"I didn’t spot it until aft the game,’’ Hoskins said. "They figured retired a mode to marque it work. Logically, it makes a batch of sense, but I’m not a physicist. But however could I not privation to look into it more?"

"I’ve already talked to immoderate bat companies since the crippled to spot if I could get my exemplary made similar that, conscionable to spot what it’s like," Hoskins added. "We’ll see. Just due to the fact that it worked for idiosyncratic doesn’t mean it’ll enactment for everybody. Hitting is specified a consciousness thing. But I’d effort it."

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Nestor Cortes, who played for the Yankees from 2021-24 and gave up 8 earned runs connected Saturday, shrugged disconnected the caller bats.

"That's thing caller to me," Cortes said. "I cognize a fewer guys did it past year. I don't deliberation it matters to me. I get the subject and exertion down it. I don't know; it doesn't truly fuss me."

The Yankees cruised to a 12-3 triumph connected Sunday to implicit a three-game expanse of the Brewers.

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