Yankees great CC Sabathia shares thoughts on viral torpedo bats: 'I think it’s great'

The biggest communicative of the MLB opening time play was the New York Yankees mashing the Milwaukee Brewers, and immoderate of those successful pinstripes were utilizing "torpedo bats," which caused a viral sensation. 

Massive statement implicit the torpedo bats, which person the tube much toward the mediate of the bat alternatively of astatine the end, filled societal media arsenic the Yankees filled the seats successful the outfield with baseballs. They deed a team-record 9 location runs successful the 20-9 triumph successful their 2nd crippled of the season, and a fewer much were deed successful the 13-2 rout the pursuing day. 

While immoderate saw it arsenic cheating, the bat was proved ineligible nether MLB’s regularisation book. Still, immoderate pitchers were not excessively happy, including Brewers stud reliever Trevor Megill, who watched his teammates person issues passim the weekend. 

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

"I deliberation it’s terrible," helium said, via 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."

CC Sabathia was astatine Yankees outpouring grooming watching hitters similar Jazz Chisholm Jr., Cody Bellinger and Anthony Volpe utilizing the bats. As a erstwhile pitcher himself – helium was elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame earlier this twelvemonth – Sabathia’s thoughts connected the substance transportation immoderate weight. 

He seems to beryllium each for it. 

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"I deliberation it’s great," helium told Fox News Digital portion discussing his concern with Xyzal arsenic the caller play begins. "I deliberation truthful overmuch worldly has been innovative for pitchers. We person truthful galore things wherever the worldly is getting better, guys are throwing harder than ever. To spot immoderate of these hitters instrumentality a small spot of an vantage backmost – not adjacent with the torpedo bats. The batting machine, the ‘Trajekt,’ to spot wherever the shot is coming retired of. You get to spot the rotation complaint of immoderate of these guys. 

"If it each helps, I deliberation for the longest clip we’ve been trying to fig retired however to get discourtesy backmost successful the game. Move the pitcher’s mound back, marque the shot bigger, each these antithetic things to travel back. You cognize however bully pitching is. We get 1 bully happening for hitters and past everybody freaked out. But everybody freaked retired due to the fact that it was the Yankees."

The Yankees were not the lone squad with players utilizing these bats. New York Mets' Francisco Lindor, Philadelphia Phillies' Alec Bohm and Chicago Cubs' Nico Hoerner were among galore others connected antithetic teams seen utilizing the antithetic bat to commencement the 2025 campaign. 

Philadelphia Phillies 3rd baseman Alec Bohm, #28, uses a torpedo bat during the sixth inning against the Colorado Rockies astatine Citizens Bank Park connected March 31, 2025. (Eric Hartline-Imagn Images)

Sabathia, though, got to witnesser the onslaught of discourtesy from the Yankees this past Saturday, erstwhile they lit up their erstwhile teammate, Nestor Cortes Jr.

However, portion the bats are catching flak for that performance, Sabathia thinks it was the Brewers' pitching that should beryllium blamed.

"For me, I was astatine the crippled erstwhile Nestor started the different time erstwhile they deed the 9 homers. It was exciting, but erstwhile I went backmost and was sitting location watching the game, each 1 of those pitches that was thrown was close down the middle," helium said. "So, I don’t cognize if it was the torpedo bat oregon the Brewers pitching, but those pitches I astir apt could’ve gotten a deed that day."

The statement whitethorn proceed arsenic the play goes on, but arsenic agelong arsenic it is wrong the rules, Sabathia is each for it, adjacent if immoderate of his chap pitchers would alternatively spot the accepted barrels connected bats moving forward. 

FIGHTING ALLERGIES WITH XYZAL

During his illustrious career, allergies were ever thing Sabathia had to interest about. Like truthful many, the outpouring tin beryllium pugnacious with allergy symptoms coming with the alteration of season, and Sabathia utilized to request a changeable from his team's aesculapian unit to header with them. 

Now successful retirement, the luxury of a squad of doctors and unit is gone, and Sabathia needed to find the close medicine to conflict those symptoms, particularly with play being his latest sports passion. 

Xyzal, who helium is present partnered with, was the cleanable remedy. 

CC Sabathia gave his instrumentality connected the viral torpedo bats the New York Yankees made celebrated during MLB Opening Day weekend. (IMAGN)

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"My allergies person been horrible my full life. When I was a kid, I’d spell to schoolhouse with rolls of toilet paper," helium said, laughing. "My allergies were super, ace bad. …So, the archetypal happening I was conscionable trying to find antithetic stuff. I came crossed Xyzal and figured retired you tin instrumentality it astatine night."

Now, Sabathia, arsenic good arsenic his 14-year-old lad Carter, person made it portion of their nightly regular to guarantee they tin get done shot play without those pesky allergy symptoms. 

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