Posted on 03/31/2025 10:31:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Thursday, on Opening Day, the Yankees hit two home runs against the Brewers in a 4-2 victory. Saturday, in the second game of the series, they hit nine homers in a 20-9 walloping of the Brew Crew, three of them coming on the first three Brewers' pitches.
Sunday, they hit four more, tying the record for most home runs hit in the first three games of a season (15).
And sure, they were playing the Brewers, but you gotta think something is going on here, right?
Well..
Yes, they redesigned the bat to put more wood where the bat makes contact with the ball.
And it's completely legal!
But of course people are whining about it -- it's the Yankees, so why wouldn't they?
Even Dave Portnoy got in on the action (wearing a Red Sox hat, of course).
"Unbiased rant"!! 🤣🤣🤣 To be fair, it's Portnoy's Barstool Sports up there mocking fans for crying about the bats.
So fans are going to be mad at these bats because it's the Yankees, other teams will then adjust their bats to match the greatness of these new "torpedo bats" -- turning baseball into a much more entertaining sport -- and then in about ten months we'll have a ban on the bats.
It'll be fun while it lasts! Also, I thought this was hilarious, so I'm leaving it here:
Its illegal. MLB bats must follow specific specifications.
I think Al Kaline used a similar bat
Pitch inside and that bat is worthless.
What specification did they violate?
Sounds to me like the same geek advantage teams have been getting out of stats is here being applied to the equipment.
That should be illegal. It’s funny, but that’s should not be legal.
I can accept many things, like positioning the label of the bat in a prime position for maximum home runs, but the shape should not change.
The specs are fairly simple and the bats are within them............
That pic is more on the bazooka rocket, RPG end of the bat world....
And by the All-Star split, all the teams will be using them.
They took the bat design from a RPG.
Note that the pic is an exaggeration...........
2. How much of an impact has the new bat style had? I think only a few of the players are using it, and most of the team’s offensive production in Milwaukee came from guys using normal bats.
You fell for the BS picture.
They took the bat design from a Bowling Pin...............
the bat they are using does follow the rules, can you let us know which part is illegal?
I suspect that the physics are that this bat gets more leverage on the swing with more weight at the end of the bat. The bat should also break easier if the batter gets sawed off inside and up. Pitchers will adjust.
Actually, he said “I thought this was hilarious, so I’m leaving it here” so I think he knows that’s not the real bat in question.
More than the bat shape is don’t throw meatball pitches right over the plate like the Brewer pitchers were doing and I’m saying this as a Red Sox fan.
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