Torpedo bats have taken MLB by storm; what are they?

The New York Yankees bushed the Milwaukee Brewers 20-9 Saturday and deed a franchise-record 9 location runs successful the rout. 

During the game, the YES broadcast noted that immoderate Yankees players were utilizing torpedo bats.

So, what are they?

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New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe follows done connected a plaything utilizing a torpedo bat during the archetypal inning against the Milwaukee Brewers astatine Yankee Stadium March 30, 2025 (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

The torpedo bats person the tube of the bat successful a antithetic location. Instead of being astatine the extremity of the bat, the tube is person to the handle, which gives the bat a bowling pin shape. Some players marque interaction with the shot much connected the statement alternatively of the accepted tube of the bat. The torpedo bats determination the tube to the label, truthful erstwhile they marque interaction they tube up the shot more. 

The uniquely shaped bats dominated speech among players and fans this play aft the Yankees’ violative eruption. 

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"I deliberation it’s terrible," Brewers alleviation ace Trevor Megill 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."

Kevin Smith, who spent clip with the Yankees past season, took to X to springiness recognition to Aaron Leanhardt for the innovative bat. 

"Yes, the Yankees person a literal genius MIT Physicist, Lenny (who is the man), connected payroll. He invented the ‘torpedo’ barrel. It brings much wood – and wide – to wherever you astir often marque interaction arsenic a hitter. The thought is to summation the fig of ‘barrels’ and alteration misses," Smith wrote. 

Leanhardt, 48, has a bachelor’s grade successful electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. successful physics from MIT and was a physics prof astatine Michigan from 2007-2014. 

New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. holds his torpedo bat arsenic helium watches a three-run location tally against the Milwaukee Brewers during the seventh inning astatine Yankee Stadium March 30, 2025.  (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

Leanhardt joined the Yankees successful 2018 aft coaching successful the Atlantic League and Montana assemblage assemblage successful 2017. 

"It’s conscionable astir making the bat arsenic dense and arsenic abdominous arsenic imaginable successful the country wherever you’re trying to bash harm connected the baseball," Leanhardt said astir the torpedo bat via The Athletic.

"There were decidedly immoderate large league players that swung it successful the large leagues successful 2023," Leanhardt told reporters Monday. "As good arsenic immoderate insignificant league players who swung it successful immoderate existent shot games successful 2023, and it conscionable benignant of built up passim 2024 into what it is today."

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Leanhardt is present a subordinate of the Miami Marlins arsenic a tract coordinator aft helium near the Yankees aft six years arsenic a large league analyst. While helium is nary longer with the team, 4 of the Yankees’ regular starters usage the torpedo bat. 

First baseman Paul Goldschmidt, halfway fielder Cody Bellinger, 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. and shortstop Anthony Volpe each usage the torpedo bat. Giancarlo Stanton does not.

New York Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe follows done connected a plaything utilizing a torpedo bat during the archetypal inning against the Milwaukee Brewers astatine Yankee Stadium March 30, 2025.  (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

Yankees outfielder Jasson Domínguez told reporters that Stanton was utilizing a torpedo bat past play erstwhile helium mashed 7 location runs successful 14 postseason games during the Yankees' tally to the World Series. 

However, the Yankees are not the lone squad that uses the bats. The MLB societal media relationship posted a little explainer to X astir the torpedo bat and highlighted 4 players from 4 teams who usage them.

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The 4 players pictured that usage the bat are New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor, Tampa Bay Rays archetypal baseman Yandy Díaz, Anthony Volpe and Minnesota Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers. Rays 3rd baseman Junior Caminero and Phillies 3rd baseman Alec Bohm person utilized them. 

Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz decided to effort the torpedo bat successful the Reds’ crippled connected Monday against the Texas Rangers aft watching the Yankees' violative onslaught.

De La Cruz went 4-5 with 2 location runs, a treble and 7 RBIs successful the Reds’ 14-3 triumph implicit the Rangers. 

Philadelphia Phillies 3rd baseman Alec Bohm uses a torpedo bat during the sixth inning against the Colorado Rockies astatine Citizens Bank Park March 31, 2025.  (Eric Hartline/Imagn Images)

"I conscionable wanted to cognize if it felt good," De La Cruz said via The Athletic, "and it decidedly does."

The bats are legal.

MLB Rule 3.02 states, "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." 

The regularisation besides says "experimental" bats can’t beryllium utilized "until the shaper has secured support from Major League Baseball of his plan and methods of manufacture."

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Leanhardt said helium would "guarantee" helium is connected a first-name ground with MLB officials who oversee bat regulation. 

While teams and players are definite to privation to get their hands connected the torpedo bat, immoderate players are contented with what they've been using. 

When Yankees skipper and two-time AL MVP victor Aaron Judge was asked wherefore helium hadn’t tried the caller torpedo bat, helium replied, "What I’ve done the past mates of seasons speaks for itself."

New York Yankees 2nd baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) uses a torpedo bat during the archetypal inning against the Milwaukee Brewers astatine Yankee Stadium March 30, 2025. (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

Reds manager Terry Francona said possibly it wasn’t the bats that led to the Yankees' grounds 9 location runs.

"I don’t person a large opinion. I deliberation if you spell backmost and look astatine wherever immoderate of these pitches were (thrown against the Yankees), it mightiness not beryllium the bat," Francona told The Athletic. 

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