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Ago Lakes‘Decalling a franchise with nine Homer on Saturday, Dodgers“Hit the coach never heard of the bats” Torpedo “.
“I saw them like everyone else – on social networks and TV,” Aaron Bates said on Monday.
Now, after a Record setting screen This weekend in New York they talk about sports.
Dodgers by hitting coaches Bates and Robert van Scoyoc are among many in the entire baseball of the main league whose interest was rebelled after watching Jazz chisholm jr,, Cody Bellinger,, Paul Goldschmidt,, Anthony Volpe and Austin wells Combine to start nine Yankees 15 homers over the weekend while using a new bat style.
“The guys always try to improve, find new ways to improve or get an edge in that sense,” Bates said. “Obviously, the baseball of the main league said everything was within the rules and everything.
The torpedo bat is a bit reminiscent of bowling, with the most part of the pipe closer to the handle. The idea is simple: transfer more wood from the end of the bat to a sweet spot where the player more often makes contact.
Even for those who have never seen or used bats, the concept is attractive. And the logic at least seems sound.
“If you contact more towards the handle, it makes sense to put more masses there,” Van Scoyoc said. “But we’ll learn about it and study it. I’m sure the guys are ordering them. All players want hits, so they will do whatever they can to score.”
Before the end of the day on Monday at the Dodger Stadium, Max Mancy and Kiké Hernández, they were already among the Dodgers players who expressed interest in ordering one of the new bats, at least to see how they felt. On the other side of the field, a visit Atlanta Braves They also have not yet started using torpedo bats – but they also sounded intrigued.
“There are some conversations,” Braves third basic man Austin Riley said Fox Sports. “Everything develops. The baseball game develops. There are so many numbers outside and how can we improve as players? It seems to be a trend that helps and works. It’s a little rumble.”
Riley, who swings the Marucci bats, first noticed players from other teams who were using Torpedo this spring. This reminded him a little of the buttons, when some players tried to counterbalance on the bat handle in an effort to produce higher bats. Riley went to Marucci to try one of them, but that wasn’t for him.
Now it does not exclude an attempt to the latest baseball. Some bat -bangs manufacturers including MarucciThey have already done torpedo bats available to buy online.
“I can play with that,” Riley said. “Pitch is so good today and things are getting better and better, a lot of swing and misses, so everything we can do to put the barrel on the ball, we will try it.”
In addition to adding more mass in the bat area where the player makes contact, it might be another benefit for a new style. It is a small pattern, but all five of the mentioned Yankees players who used the new Bat-Volpe, Chisholm, Bellinger, Goldschmidt and wells have been noticeable from year to year in the average bat speed of bats.
Aaron Leanhardt, a former former physics professor, educated at MIT, who is now a field coordinator with MarlinHe is responsible for bringing a concept to New York when he was the chief analyst of Yankees. It was a perennial project that was mostly unnoticed by the start of this season Giancarlo StantonAmong other things, using a bat’s version last year.
“It is a merit to players who had conversations with me two years ago and were ready to be patient zero and demonstrations of the first versions of this, maybe already in 2023, and then in that off -season and then 2024,” Leanhardt told reporters on Monday. “It was definitely surreal in the last few days. At the end of the day, It’s about a dough – not a bat. “
For now, while no more information, Dodgers Reliever Anthony gang He said he would not think about changing his thought process on the embankment or the way he attacks the attacker if he sees his opponent who uses one.
But their sticks will dictate how this could develop.
“If they hit us and it’s, like we usually beat guys, such things, there’s some space to really talk about it and we really somehow evaluate it,” the gang said. “But until then, there is not much, just because it’s a different thing.”
Bates is curious to see how many blows adopt a new style, given that it might take not to find a barrel as often as they would like.
“How much is the guys willingly look at yourself in the mirror and say,” I’m a lot stuck? “Bates said.
Nevertheless, the concept is collecting money around the league.
Mets’ Francisco LindorOriole ‘ Adley Rutschmancubs’ Dansby Swanson and Nico Hoerner and rays’ Junior Caminero Everyone is among the players who have tried new torpedo this year.
On Monday night, Red Settlement Elly de la Cruz For the first time you use a stick. He pierced two homemade, hit twice and hit a high seven career running.
“I think the guys will try,” Van Scoyoc said. “I mean, how no, don’t you? You see these kinds of outcomes, of course.”
Rowan Kavner is MLB writer for Fox Sports. He had previously covered La Dodgers, La Clippers and Dallas Cowboys. The city of LSU, Rowan was born in California, grew up in Texas and then moved to the West Coast of 2014. Follow it on x on @Rowankavrner.
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