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Not everyone in Major League Baseball is enamored with the new torpedo bat craze, as one All-Star recently divulged. Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Max Muncy is among the players who gave the new ...
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For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs.
Before then, Leanhardt had never really thought about the design of bats, any more than he’d thought about his glove or his spikes, he recently told reporters. But he was well positioned to ...
(WKOW) — Baseball is a game of adjustments, but there's one adjustment in the MLB that's changing the game. There's a new bat causing shockwaves in baseball and it's called the torpedo bat. But what ...
The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...
Dutch studio NEXT Architects has completed Watchtower Einderheide, a bat-friendly wooden lookout in the Netherlands with a curved cut-out that reveals a spiral staircase. NEXT Architects ...
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - “Torpedo bats” are the talk of baseball, with the Atlanta Braves now placing an order for the new bat type. And potentially, these bats could make their way onto ...
That attention isn’t toward the players; instead, the new lumber they’re swinging. It’s called a “Torpedo bat.” Around half of the Yankees’ lineup uses the bat shaped like a torpedo; hence the name.
During spring training, someone in the organization had mentioned to Kay that the team's analytics department had counseled players on where pitches tended to strike their bats, and with ...
NEW YORK — The Torpedo Bat Era isn’t even a week old. But in the short time since Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay pointed out the team’s new, misshapen sticks on live TV, Torpedo Bat ...