The New York Yankees hit nine home runs in Saturday's victory over the Milwaukee Brewers and in the victory they might have changed the game forever as the world was introduced to their wild new "torpedo" bats that have been specially designed to lead to more power.
The bats came about thanks to the team's analytics squad which did some research and found that more hits were coming just below the barrel of the bat. They then put more wood in that area and now these bats could become something every team starts using.
And yes, MLB has said they are absolutely legal.
Here's Michael Kay talking about them:
Michael Kay explains that the Yankees made new bats "where they moved a lot of the wood into the label so the harder part of the bat is going to strike the ball."
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 29, 2025
Seems relevant today... pic.twitter.com/cpldzigdrT
Fans had lots of jokes about these wild new bats:
There's no way these Yankees bats are legal pic.twitter.com/un9XFLp9L4
— FAX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFAX) March 29, 2025
The rest of mlb https://t.co/BAuo5NUtcS pic.twitter.com/iVeahWj8oZ
— Jeff-LJ-Lloyd (@Jeff_LJ_Lloyd) March 29, 2025
.@joshschwam was this your idea https://t.co/45ljZ1Lzkp pic.twitter.com/XwJBsv6Fjl
— Griffin Fabits (@fabits_griffin) March 29, 2025
Bat shaped like a bowling pin 🎳 tf https://t.co/l9donuccfx
— AJ Smith (@_ajsmith) March 29, 2025
Me when I accidentally grab my bowling pin bag instead of my baseball bat bag before my the game https://t.co/8PhiqwZ75n
— peter (@birdguy97) March 30, 2025
We didn’t juice the ball - we juiced the bat?? https://t.co/RjEVpOAtuT
— Matt Perrault (@sportstalkmatt) March 29, 2025
Was this a fight club type of thing where Michael Kay isn’t supposed to talk about the weird bats https://t.co/AtC5Wk8fYs
— Carl Paulus (@CarlPaulus) March 29, 2025
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