The largest revelation of the opening weekend of the Major Baseball League was not the 5-0 domination of Los Angeles Dodgers, the four circuits already struck by Eugenio Suárez or the three consecutive victories of Miami.
Instead, the discourse on baseball was new torpedo -shaped bats used by several members of the New York Yankees – and the offensive numbers of the league they produced.
The Yankees scored 36 points, an MLB of 22 more than their opponents, through three games, including a team record nine circuits during the victory of Saturday against Milwaukee.
On the five circuits authorized that day by the starter of the brewers Nestor Cortes, a former Yankee, four were affected by players using bats which avoid the form of a thick cannon used for generations and move instead of the woods of the end of the bat closer to the middle, near its label.
Awareness of bats has become a subject of trend during the derby on Saturday after the Yankees broadcaster, Michael Kay, revealed that the change was the result of a study of the analysis department of the team of the stop-toe Anthony Volpe which found “each ball which he seemed to have struck on the label. He did not hit on the barbar.”
“So, they had invented bats where they moved a large part of the wood in the label, so the hardest part of the bat will really hit the ball.”
“I know I am bought,” Volpe told the Associated Press. “The more you can have a bigger barrel where you hit the ball, it makes sense to me.”
The new bats is used by Volpe, Jazz Chisholm – which struck two circuits on Sunday – Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger and Austin Wells. They collected nine circuits in the first three games of the team.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone said it was an example of the team “trying to win on the margins”.
MLB only has seven stipulations governing bats in its official rules book, and the new form does not seem to violate them. The rules require that bats be a piece of solid wood, a “smooth round stick no more than 2.61 inches in diameter with the thickest part and no more than 42 inches in length.” Experimental bats are not authorized “until the manufacturer has obtained approval from the major baseball league from its design and manufacturing methods”.
“Everything is in the regulations,” said Bellinger last year, who said he used similar bats during training but not games with Chicago Cubs. “They made sure that (of) even before the season begins, knowing that, I imagine, at one point in the way these bats seem that it will probably come out at a given moment.”
Where does the specific design come from?
In a series of messages on X, the former interior field player of the Yankees, Kevin Smith, has credited Aaron Leanhardt, a former member of the staff of the Yankees now employed by the Marlins of Miami, for the concept of moving more wood and density where the strikers come into contact most often. Leanhardt “said” in 5 to 10 years, that’s all anyone who will use, “said Smith.
Before working in baseball, Leanhardt was a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leandhardt told athletics on Sunday that the idea had been triggered while working with the typing leagues of the Yankees minor leagues.
“It is simply a question of making the bat as heavy and as fatty as possible in the area where you are trying to do damage on baseball,” Leanhardt told The Athletic.
To all extent, the Yankees have, in fact, caused damage. They reached an average of high -end MLB team of 0.333 and added 11 circuits, one, one of the advances in the league. However, all these light statistics cannot be attributed to new bats.
Aaron judge, Home Run champion last season, who has already reached four this season and beat in 11 points, is one of the Yankees who are non -Torpedo users.
“What I have done in the past two seasons has been talking about himself,” said the judge, according to the New York Post. “Why try to change something if you have something working?”
