Following an offensive explosion — in which the team hit 15 home runs and scored 36 runs in just three games — questions emerged about the unusual bats used by some of the team's hitters.
Bats get a bad rap, but once you look past the vampire lore and spooky Halloween vibes, they’re actually kind of adorable.
During spring training, someone in the organization had mentioned to Kay that the team's analytics department had counseled players on where pitches tended to strike their bats, and with ...
Giancarlo Stanton embraced the torpedo bats long before they became the talk of MLB. The Yankees slugger used the bowling-pin-shaped bats last season, including during a torrid playoff run in ...
(NEXSTAR) — Even if you don’t follow baseball, you may have heard talk of the torpedo bats that seemingly helped propel the New York Yankees to put up 36 runs and hit 15 homers during their ...
The nuance? The "torpedo" bat, used widely by Yankees hitters to open the year. Torpedo bats actually aren't completely brand-new. They haven't been widely utilized across MLB since their initial ...
“The dream,” Jeff Van Gundy said, laughing, “is that you figure something out and nobody else figures it out until it’s too late. That almost never happens. But I saw it happen.” ...
Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images The Yankees had some help, though, thanks to their new "torpedo bats," which have become the talk of the sports world due to their unusual design and immediate impact.
Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for six-and-a-half years, had a simple question he was trying to answer when ...
Part of this explosion is being attributed to newly designed bats that the Yankees are using. They are being called "torpedo" bats because of the untraditional barrel that rests closer to the ...
As a god of bats and evil, Camazotz is a bloodthirsty predator who commands an army of bats and spreads disease. This character is very similar to Vecna, who describes himself as “a predator ...