They are called “bates torpedo” and were the protagonists of the MLB start. A change in the distribution of weight in the bat favors the ideal impact with the ball. The home run numbers shoot. And the debate, too. “They are legal,” says the MLB commissioner. The pitchers do not share that opinion.
Fifteen homers in the first three games of the Yankees season. Several of them with “bates torpedo” as protagonists. They have a different form with respect to conventional bates. The idea is of a former Yankee formerist and plans to place the thickest part, where maximum energy transfer is given, at the point where the batter impacts the ball more often.
Although there is no objective guarantee that these bats improve performance, demand for the “torpedo” has shot. Manny Machado, Star of the San Diego Padres, summed up, in statements collected by the US media, a common idea among the MLB batters: “I have no idea what they are, but they should send some around here if they will allow you to hit homers in that way. So whoever manages them, who sends some to Petco Park.”
The mind behind the “Bates Torpedo” is a physicist formed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), now coordinator in the Miami Marlins and former Yankees, Aaron Leanhardt.
In the 2022-2023 course, Leanhardt worked as an analyst at the Yankees and, when chatting with the batters, he realized that many of them regretted the fact of not being able to impact the ball with the thickest part of his bats and, incidentally, not being able to release maximum power at the exit of the blow.
This is the so -called “Sweet Spot”, something like “Sweet Point”, and it is the point of the bat in which the ball absorbs the maximum amount of impulse forward and bounces with greater speed.
Although the power difference between one point of impact and another can be minimal, in the case of the MLB batters that can make the difference between a home run and a comfortable ball to control by the gardeners.
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The new ‘bates torpedo’ do not go against the regulation
Leanhardt then integrated the analytical study of the most common impact points among their batters and it was proposed to develop bates that had their thickest part in the ideal area. Thus the so -called “Bates Torpedos” were created.
The case exploded with the New York Yankees as protagonists. Fifteen homers in the first three games of his season and 18 in the first four, several of them made by batters who bet on the “bates torpedo”.
It is not an isolated case. Minnesota and Rays de Tampa Bay’s twins hitters, among others, also used these bats at the start of the campaign.
And if home run numbers were striking, it should also be noted that other “top” batters of the MLB, such as Aaron Judge of the Yankees continued to send the ball out of the used park used conventional bates. The player’s talent is still in the center.
This was what the MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred, did in an interview with the New York Times.
“The bates respect the rules and players, in reality, they have been moving the sweet point of their bats for years,” said Manfred, who stressed that attention and interest in baseball remains very high in the United States despite the open debate about their suffering in comparisons with other national sports such as American football and basketball.
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