Meet the MIT physicist turned Marlins coach behind the ‘torpedo’ bats used by the Yankees
Aaron Leanhardt was the Yankees' lead analyst in 2024 before joining the Marlins' coaching staff this offseason.
Torpedo bats are making a lot of noise — but they’ve been quietly in MLB for a few years
Reds star Elly De La Cruz is the latest convert, hitting two home runs and knocking in seven runs in his first game with the ...
What is the torpedo bat? Are torpedo bats banned? Meet the Marlins coach who invented them
The story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt.
Marlins' Aaron Leanhardt, creator of the 'torpedo bat,' discusses how idea came about
Aaron Leanhardt helped develop the first such bats with the Yankees, for whom he worked as a minor-league hitting coach and ...
MIT-educated physicist reveals the secret to Yankees’ success with torpedo bats he created
Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for ...
The Amateur Baseball League That Launched the Career of the Man Behind the Torpedo Bat
Long before his oddly shaped bat became the talk of baseball, Aaron Leanhardt played in the Boston Metro Baseball League. He ...
'Torpedo bat' innovator and Marlins field coordinator Aaron Leanhardt explains why it took so long to come up with the idea
Before joining the Marlins, Leanhardt worked as a major-league analyst for the Yankees. Per a profile by The Athletic, ...
The Yankees' viral ‘torpedo' bats were designed by an MIT physicist: ‘At the end of the day it's about the batter, not the bat,' he says
But the development of the uniquely shaped piece of lumber — it looks more like a bowling pin than a traditional bat, with a ...
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Meet Aaron Leanhardt, the MIT PhD scholar who is the brain behind Yankees' controversial torpedo bats
The man behind the design is Aaron Leanhardt, who has all of a sudden become the most popular figure with the Miami Marlins.
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The Launch of the Torpedo Bat
The New York Yankees quietly brought a physics experiment to the plate. Then came the home-run barrage.
Torpedo bats are 'absolutely good for baseball,' says MLB commissioner Rob Manfred
M ajor League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred recently addressed the advent and rising popularity of the so-called "torpedo ...
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Marlins field coordinator who designed torpedo bat says it's more about the players
For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it's more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate. The torpedo model — a striking design in which wood is moved ...