The MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is not about to torpedo the bats of the baseball offensive.
In fact, Manfred said that Torpille bats that Yankees and other teams use to make their way to victories at the start of the season are “absolutely good for baseball” during a Q&R with the New York Times.
No, not because MLB wants Yankees to succeed, as some conspiracy theorists want to believe it. But because the controversy injects life to baseball at a time when the ratings are down and ESPN ends a long -standing television broadcast partnership.
“I believe that problems like the battle of the torpedo and the debate around him demonstrate the fact that baseball always occupies a unique place in our culture, because people enter a full frenzy on something that is really nothing at the end of the day,” Manfred told Times. “The bats respect the rules.”
Torpille bats have more barrel focused on the frequent contact point for each player.
“Players actually move the ideal point in bat for years,” says Manfred. “But that simply shows that something about the game is more important than what is captured by television ratings or income or one of these things, when you have discussions and debates on this subject.”
The launchers began to complain about torpedoes during the opening weekend, when the Yankees swept a series of three Brewers games by equaling an MLB record with a 15-house dam.
Giancarlo Stanton, who experienced an inherited after-season race while the Yankees reached the World Series 2024, was one of the MLB players who used a torpedo bat last season.
He is sidelined by an elbow injury this season, but refused to draw any correlation between the two.
Sports are often accused of having refined their rules to promote score and offensive to attract the attention of fans.
Manfred said that MLB was not necessarily trying to create more circuits as much as it is less stop time.
“You often hear about the balance between pitching and hitting and this kind of problem,” he said. “One thing we have learned thanks to all the research we have done with fans is that athletics is the most important, perhaps more than anything else. All you do that promotes defensive athletics, stolen bases. The action, movement, the ability to show how athletic you are. All the changes that allow the presentation of the athletics of your players.”
