Every team and player in MLB using new 'torpedo' bat
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Newsweek |
The bats have piqued the interest of many players are the league.
Bleacher Report |
It seems like just a matter of time before torpedo bats are everywhere in MLB, which gives us precious time to think about which hitters should be making the switch.
Houston Chronicle |
A bat with a wider barrel sometimes referred to as a torpedo bat sits next to a normal bat during the first inning of MLB baseball game against the Washington Nationals, in Toronto, Monday, March 31, ...
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Torpedo bats are now all the rage across the league, but opinions on the bats are split. Some players are ready to experiment with the torpedo bats. Others are quick to call them a scourge.
Because as much as has been made of the Yankees using those bats — the list, at the moment, comprises Jazz Chisholm Jr., Anthony Volpe, Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger and Austin Wells, who have totaled nine homers in three games — it also is currently true that the number of Yankees not using the bats is larger than the number using them.
Some of them were hit by players wielding an innovation from a former team employee and a one-time MIT physicist, who reimagined the field-legal bats to be shaped more like a torpedo.