April 1st, 2025

The biggest story of the weekend was the runs scored by the New York Yankees which were aided with their use of “torpedo bats”. It cannot be that their competition, the Milwaukee Brewers, were outmatched. No, baseball fans could not accept the Yankees scored 36 runs over 3 games without some help. It must have been their new bats…

These bats are legal. They have been. By moving the end of the bat’s thickness lower towards the handle where the Marucci “M” is, it allows for a player that gets jammed by pitches or has trouble hitting the ball where the barrel is on most bats, they are able to mishit the ball at the thickest part of the bat. It is like golf clubs and forgiveness. If you are not able to continually hit the sweet spot, some golf clubs have a bigger area for you to miss if you do not make pure contact of the club head.

Aaron Judge was not even using one of these torpedo bats. He is an exceptional hitter and rarely misses barreling up the baseball. And he does not need one of these bats with a larger sweet spot to hit over 60 home runs this 2025 season. Yes, he will break that barrier this season. He missed two months slumping last season and he will use those months this year hitting over the 60-mark. So the question is not whether these bats should be legal. They are legal. Anyone can use them and you can bet many players will start using them because they make a lot of sense. The forgiveness they get by missing where the barrel used to be will have these baseball players using any means necessary to find a little extra power. This translates to more runs. More runs means more wins.