BOMB’S AWAY! “Torpedo” bats are taking baseball world by storm!
And just like that, everyone hates the Yankees even more. This past weekend the Yankees took the headlines as the team most associated with a “new” bat called the Torpedo bat. Here’s the science behind it as quoted by its developer, MIT-educated, former physics professor at the University of Michigan, Aaron Leanhardt. “. The creation of the bowling pin bat (also known as the torpedo bat) optimizes the most important tool in baseball by redistributing weight from the end of the bat toward the area 6 to 7 inches below its tip, where major league players typically strike the ball. Doing so takes an apparatus that for generations has looked the same and gives it a fun-house-mirror makeover, with the fat part of the bat more toward the handle and the end tapering toward a smaller diameter, like a bowling pin.”
