The giants SF want to try “bats” that helped the hot start of the Yankees

HOUSTON – Aptly every year, a new trend sweeps the major major leagues.

In 2023, it was the sweeper. In 2024, it was the separator. In 2025? It is the “Torpille bat”.

The Torpille bat was the speech of baseball after the New York Yankees struck 15 circuits – including nine on Saturday – more than three games against the Brewers Milwaukee. The bats, faithful to the name, have a form of torpedo and are made to measure, designed to ensure that the densest part of the bat is the place where a striker establishes the most contact.

And, yes, despite the abnormal look, bats are completely legal.

“I have always thought that baseball was behind the curve in terms of technology and creating the right equipment for each player,” said Giants, Mike Yastrzemski. “It’s always up to us to try bats and see if we like it-and even if you like it, you don’t know if it’s the right bat for you. It is good to see that there is a real reflection in which equipment we really use.”

Bats are the invention of Aaron Leanhardt, 48, who obtained his baccalaureate in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and his doctorate in MIT physics. Leanhardt, currently coordinator on the field of Miami Marlins, developed the bat during his stay with New York, where he was the main analyst of the team last season. The Yankees, not surprisingly, lead the charge of the Torpille bat.

As things happen, around 20 players this season using Torpille bats and others are in part in part to the yankees bursting. Elly de la Cruz, whose Reds lost twice against the Giants in their first three -game series, tried the bat on Monday and started going 4 for 5 with two circuits, a double and seven produced points.

Over the next few months, bats could go to the Giant clubhouses.

“At one point, I will try it just to give it a chance,” said inner field player Tyler Fitzgerald. “This is a fashionable thing right now. If the Yankees are not 20 points in this game, it’s not even a discussion. Anything to give the striker a little more, I’m absolutely for.”

“I will definitely examine and understand what is good,” said Yastrzemski. “But I’m not going to just go blindly. I’m going to go find the data and decide if it’s something I should even try before doing this. I don’t really feel like I’m in position when I need to go looking for something I don’t need to look for now.”

This list will not include the first goal player Lamonte Wade Jr., who prefers to drive with the model that he is used for years.

“Honestly, I’m not really interested in that,” said Wade. “It makes sense, but I like my bats. My bats are also made for me. ”

Despite the legality of the Torpille bat, there was no shortage of detractors claiming that bats have provided an unjust advantage.

With the obvious warning that the season is young, several players who use Torpille bats have had strong departures at their seasons. On Tuesday, the Yankees chisholm jazz, Paul Goldschmidt, Austin Wells and Cody Bellinger all boast of an OPS of at least 1,000.

According to the Baseball rule of Major League 3.02, bats “will be a smooth and round round stick no more than 2.61 inches in diameter to the thickest part and no more than 42 inches in length. The bat must be a piece of solid wood. ” The torpedo bat meets the two criteria. Since they are legal, Yastrzemski does not see bats as unfair, but rather the latest ways to use technology to find an advantage.

“Whether it is Edgetronic cameras to see a specific socket on your pitch or launch weighted balls, using different density bats, using different types of wood, there is always someone who tries something new,” said Yastrzemski. “Unless the league has come out and said it was not going to allow it, I can’t see that it is unfair.”

Justin Verlander laughed when he asked him questions about Torpille’s bats and said he did not know enough about them to comment, but Robbie Ray described the construction of bats as “an interesting thought” that makes sense. For all the early success that Chisholm, Goldschmidt, Bellinger and others have known, Ray sees a means where strikers could end up being disadvantaged.

“I have the impression that you will see it even, because these balls that you hit at the end of the bat no longer strike a barrel,” said Ray. “Yes, it could help you arrive at these locations that you do not come normally, but I think you will also hit the lower balls with which you could normally get out.”

Originally published: April 1, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.