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Is it the bat or the confidence that a bat that looks like a torpedo gives?<\/p>\n
Anthony Volpe isn\u2019t quite sure just yet, but after hitting two home runs in his first two games of the season with the new bat that a former Yankees analyst helped create, the shortstop isn\u2019t changing a thing.<\/p>\n
Volpe is one of about five Yankees who are using the new torpedo bat, in which more wood (and therefore mass) is closer to the label of the bat than the typical barrel. The new dimensions do not violate Major League Baseball\u2019s official rules or the Bat Supplier Regulations, and they are not for everyone \u2014 like Aaron Judge, who indicated Sunday morning he has little interest in trying it.<\/p>\n
But the early returns have been promising.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far, so good,\u201d Volpe said Sunday morning. \u201cIt\u2019s cool to look down at and the concept makes so much sense. I know I\u2019m bought in. The bigger you can have the barrel where you\u2019re going to hit the ball makes sense to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s probably just placebo,\u201d Volpe added with a grin. \u201cA lot of it is looking up at your bat and you see how big the barrel is. But it\u2019s exciting. I think any .001 percent mentally that can give you confidence helps.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Cody Bellinger are among the other Yankees who are using the torpedo bat. Bellinger said the Cubs were swinging with it in batting practice last season, but never used it in a game because it did not yet feel right and the Yankees seem to have had more advancements with it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the benefit for me is I like the weight distribution personally,\u201d Bellinger said. \u201cThe weight\u2019s closer to my hands, so I feel as if it\u2019s lighter in a way. So that for me was the biggest benefit. And then obviously the bigger the sweet spot, the bigger the margin for error.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volpe echoed that sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were all just talking and saying, if it can help you foul off one pitch a season, it buys you one more pitch or it helps you one way, you might as well try it,\u201d Volpe said. \u201cIt feels the same, see where it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n
But not everyone wanted to try it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I did the past couple seasons speaks for itself,\u201d Judge said. \u201cWhy try to change something if you have something that\u2019s working?\u201d<\/p>\n
The brainchild behind the bat, according to former Yankees minor leaguer Kevin Smith, is Aaron Leanhardt, a former MIT physicist who served as the club\u2019s major league analyst last season and was a minor league hitting coordinator in the organization before that. Leanhardt left the Yankees this offseason for a promotion to become the Marlins\u2019 field coordinator, but his work is still being felt in The Bronx.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Lenny was working really hard on it,\u201d Volpe said.<\/p>\n
The new bats went viral on Saturday during the Yankees\u2019 20-9 ambush of the Brewers in which they hit a franchise-record nine home runs, with YES Network broadcaster Michael Kay explaining the new development on air.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure there\u2019s a part of our clubhouse and team that would have wanted it to be a secret, but it was always going to be out,\u201d Volpe said.\u201cIt\u2019s all within regulation,\u201d Bellinger said. \u201cThey made sure of that before the season even started, knowing that with the way these bats looked, it was probably going to get out at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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