New York-NEW YORK YANKEES were the story of a franchise record of nine houses on Saturday against Milwaukee Brewers. Then came a discussion about the real bats that some players used in victory 20-9.
The uniquely shaped lumber is the result of two -year research and experimenting with the former Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was stored on the rudder.
Question in his center?
“Where are you trying to hit the ball?” Aaron Leanhardt said in a telephone interview on Sunday morning. “Where are you trying to contact?”
Leanhardt (48) began his job when he was a member of Yankees’ strike in 2022 for a smaller league and brought it to the main league last season when he was the main analyst of the team, with some players, including short Anthony Volpe and tried them in games. Now, up to five Yankees, it will use them in games at least early this season, according to Outfield Cody Bellinger.
Bats-their torpedo-shaped-shaped-makers are made to players’ preferences and are designed to make the densest part of the bat is a place where this particular hitter is most commonly made with baseball, said Leanhardt.
“Really,” he said. “It’s just that the bat is as difficult as possible and as close as possible in the area where you are trying to damage baseball.”
Anthony Volpe (holding a “torpedo” bat) Congratulations Jazz Chisholm during the victory Yankees on Saturday. (Mike Stobe / Getty Images)
Said the Baseball spokesman of the main league Athletic that bats do not break any rules. MLB rule 3.02 states that the bat “must be a smooth round rod that is not more than 2,61 inches in the strongest part and a maximum of 42 inches in length. BAT must be one piece of solid wood”. It is also said that “experimental” bats cannot be used “until the manufacturer ensures the approval of the main league of his design and production methods”.
Asked if he was the inventor of technology, Leanhardt said that this was a group effort, results from interviews with coaches, players, MLB and Bat Bat.
“The credit goes to those who take it,” Leanhardt said. “But if people want to attribute credit to different people, then I will do it.”
But the Yankes official said that Leanhardt deserves a “lot” of a loan. Kevin Smith, who spent parts of four seasons in large societies, also attributed Leanhardt to infielder, who spent parts of four seasons in large societies.
Yes, Yankees has a literal brilliant physicist Mit Lenny (who is a man). Barrel invented “torpedo”. It brings more wood – and mass – where you most often make contact as Hitter. The aim is to increase the number of “barrels” and reduce errors. pic.twitter.com/enc1wkam9g
– Kevin Smith (@kjs_4) 29. March 2025
Leanhardt embarked on an unorthodox way to baseball.
He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and Ph.D. In physics from MIT. From 2007 to 2014 he was a professor of physics at the University of Michigan.
Leanhardt started training in the Atlantic League in 2017 and trained on Montan Community College before joining Yankees in 2018. In the Majory in 2024, the club said it was his first “league analyst” and “responsible for integrating quantitative information with performance and preparation.”
Why leave the academic community to baseball?
“I think it’s one of the great things about sport, it’s very competitive,” he said. “Guys are willing to push the envelope. It’s just an opportunity to take my background to the area and find ways to innovate.”
Talking with players have revealed over the years that their greatest concerns were double, Leanhardt said. They wanted to make more contact with the playgrounds and wanted to strike the ball more often with a “sweet spot” bat or the densest area.
“They will point to a bat, which is probably six or seven inches down from the tip of the bat,” he said. “This is where it is a sweet place usually. It’s just through those interviews where you think we’re not changing how much wood we put on the tip versus how much we put in a sweet place?
Leanhardt said he hadn’t seen many disadvantages to redistribute the bat.
“The bat speed should remain the same,” he said. “Maybe the bat speed can even increase a little depending on how you want to rework the bat. But in the end you get a thicker barrel, a heavier barrel in a sweet place. So in some sense you can have your cake and eat here.
Leanhardt said he didn’t want to talk about the experience of individual players with a new bat. Yankees determined Hitter Giancarlo Stanton at the beginning of this month told reporters that last season it was “probably some modifications of bats” that caused tears of ligaments in both elbows that led to his current stay on the injured list, even though no one was to blame for anyone. Then he added, “I don’t know why it happened.” Leanhardt refused to comment on Stanton’s situation.
“You would have to ask Yankees’ medical staff,” he said. “I will postpone all these questions to medical boys Yankees.”
Leanhardt said that the “nature of our business” took years for a radically new bat design.
“People on the day when Hickora turned very heavy bats, and then someone had this brilliant idea to swing something lighter, something like Ash, and that was a revolutionary in the 1920s,” 30, “40. “In the end, it just accepts people who ask the right questions and are willing to be forward.”
He got a kick that he had seen Saturday’s inflammation of the social media that bats had caused. He said that while some players started using them last season, “the whole type of industry was captured by the wind” and “exploded in offseason”.
“That’s why you see it in the hands of so many people,” he said. “It is obvious that the (Saturday) show threw a lot of attention to him.”
Bats took a lot of coordination from the phase produced. Leanhardt said he “guarantees” that he is on the first name with MLB officials who oversee the regulation of bats and “anyone who runs a lathe for any baseball manufacturer in baseball”.
“You really just communicate with every company and try to find a person who really knows wood and knows how to turn the wood on the turning. You just build a relationship with these boys and convince them that it’s something that is in their best interests to produce for your players.
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