New York Yankees beat Milwaukee Brewers 20-9 on Saturday and hit a franchise record nine home runs in the route.
During the game, the YES broadcast noticed that some Yankees players used torpedo bats.
So what are they?
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New York Yankees Shortstop Anthony Volpe follows through on a swing using a torpedo bat during the first lap against Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium 30 March 2025 (Brad Penner/Imag images)
The torpedo bats have the barrel of bats in another place. Instead of being at the end of the bat, the barrel is closer to the handle, giving bats a bowling form. Some players come in contact with the ball on the label instead of the traditional barrel of bats. The torpedo bats move the barrel to the label so that when they get in touch, they base ball more.
The uniquely shaped bats dominated conversation among players and fans over the weekend after Yankees’ offensive outbreaks.
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“I think it’s terrible,” Brewer’s Relief Ace Trevor Megill told the New York Post. “We’ll see what the data says. I’ve never seen anything like it before. I feel like it’s something, [league]. It might not be. But it’s Yankees, so they let it slip. “
Kevin Smith, who spent time with Yankees last season, went to X to give the honor to Aaron Leanhardt for the innovative bat.
“Yes, Yankees has a literal genius -mit – physicist, Lenny (who is the man), on payroll. He invented ‘torpedo’ the barrel. It brings more wood – and mass – to the place where you most often come into contact as a hitter. The idea is to increase the number of ‘barrels’ and fall misses,” Smith wrote.
Leanhardt, 48, has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. in physics from MIT and was a physics professor at Michigan from 2007-2014.
New York Yankee’s second Baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. Holding his torpedo bat as he sees a three-run home drive against Milwaukee Brewers during the seventh round at Yankee Stadium 30 March 2025. (Brad Penner/Imag images)
Leanhardt joined Yankees in 2018 after coaching in the Atlantic League and Montana Community College in 2017.
“It’s just about making bats as heavy and as fat as possible in the area where you try to hurt baseball,” Leanhardt said of torpedo bats via the athletic.
“There were certainly some big league players swinging it in the big leagues by 2023,” Leanhardt told journalists on Monday. “As well as some smaller league players who swung it in some real baseball games in 2023, and it was just built up in 2024 for what it is today.”
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Leanhardt is now a member of Miami Marlins as field coordinator after leaving Yanke’s after six years as a major league analyst. While he is no longer with the team, four of Yankees’ regular starters use torpedo bats.
First Baseman Paul Goldschmidt, Center Fielder Cody Bellinger, second Baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. And shortstop Anthony Volpe uses all torpedo bats. Giancarlo Stanton doesn’t.
New York Yanke’s Shortstop Anthony Volpe follows through on a turn using a torpedo bat during the first lap against Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium March 30, 2025. (Brad Penner/Imag images)
Yankee’s outfielder Jasson Domínguez told journalists that Stanton used a torpedo bat last season as he mashed seven home runs in 14 post -season matches during Yankees’ race for the World Series.
However, Yankees is not the only team that uses the bats. The MLB account on social media published a brief explanatory to X about Torpedo bats and highlighted four players from four teams using them.
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The four depicted players who use bats are the New York Mets Shortstop Francisco Lindor, Tampa Bay Rays First Baseman Yandy Díaz, Anthony Volpe and Minnesota Twins Catcher Ryan Jeffers. Rays Third Baseman Junior Caminero and Phillie’s third Baseman Alec Bohm have used them.
Cincinnati Red’s Shortstop Elly de la Cruz decided to try Torpedo Bat in Reds ‘Games Monday against Texas Rangers after watching Yankees’ offensive attack.
De la Cruz went 4-5 with two home runs, a double and seven RBIs in Reds ’14 -3 win over Rangers.
Philadelphia Phillies Third Baseman Alec Bohm uses a torpedo bats during the sixth round against Colorado Rockies in Citizens Bank Park 31 March 2025. (Eric Hartline/Imag- Pictures)
“I just wanted to know if it felt good,” they said la Cruz via the athletic, “and it does.”
The bats are legal.
MLB rule 3.02 says, “Bats should be a smooth, round stick no more than 2.61 inches in diameter at the thickest part and no more than 42 inches in length. Bats should be a piece of solid wood.”
The rule also says that “experimental” bats cannot be used “until the manufacturer has secured approval from the Major League Baseball for his design and manufacturing methods.”
Leanhardt said he would “guarantee” that he is on a first-name basis with MLB officials who oversee BAT regulation.
While teams and players are sure to want to get the hands of torpedo bats, some players are happy with what they have used.
When Yankee’s captain and two-time al MVP winner Aaron Judge was asked why he had not tried the new torpedo bat, he replied, “What I have done for the past few seasons speaks for himself.”
New York Yankee’s second Baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) Uses a torpedo bat during the first lap against Milwaukee Brewers at Yankee Stadium 30 March 2025. (Brad Penner/Imag images)
Red’s manager Terry Francona may have said it was not the bats that led to Yankees’ record nine home runs.
“I don’t have a great sense. I think if you go back and look at where some of these seats were (thrown at Yankees), it might not be bat,” Francona told Athletic.
