Why some Yankees switched to eye-opening ‘torpedo’ bat shape — and the physicist behind it
NY Post
Is it the bat or the confidence that a bat that looks like a torpedo gives?
Anthony Volpe isn’t quite sure just yet, but after hitting two home runs in his first two games of the season with the new bat that a former Yankees analyst helped create, the shortstop isn’t changing a thing.
Volpe is one of five Yankees who are using the new torpedo bat, in which more wood (and therefore mass) is closer to the label of the bat than the typical barrel.
The new dimensions do not violate Major League Baseball’s official rules or the Bat Supplier Regulations, and they are not for everyone — like Aaron Judge, who indicated Sunday morning he has little interest in trying it.
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