The world of baseball was quick to notice the strange battles that some Yankees players used in the midst of their 20-9 victory against the Brewers on Saturday at the stadium.
Jazz Chisholm and Anthony Volpe both market towards the plate using bats which seemed to have an unusually lean end cap with a thick barrel positioned towards the handle of the bat.
Yes, the broadcaster Michael Kay took time during the match to explain the bats, as well as the reasoning behind Volpe and Chisholm by using them.
“The Yankees Front Office, the analysis department, did a study on Anthony Volpe and each ball, it seemed that he hit the label,” Kay said on Saturday. “He did not hit the barrel. So they had invented bats where they moved a large part of the wood in the label, so the hardest part of the bat hit the ball.”
Chisholm and Volpe both run during the rout of the Yankees who saw the bombers hit a top of nine circuits, leaving skeptical baseball fans as for the new bat.
According to the rules of the MLB, however, there is nothing illegal in bats.
The MLB official rules book stipulates: “The bat must be a smooth round stick no more than 2.61 inches in diameter to the thickest part and no more than 42 inches in length”, and bats are suitable for these directives.
Since the match on Saturday, Chisholm and Volpe have been the only two players to have used the new bats, with the Yankees Coody Bellinger field player using a less exaggerated version of the different-shaped bat.
