MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting analyst with the Yankees before he joined the Miami Marlins as a field coordinator in the offseason.

Despite losing their first game of the MLB season, the New York Yankees continued their historic start to the year as they broke multiple records through their prolific home run hitting.

Players are intrigued. Reds star Elly De La Cruz tried it Monday and crushed the ball. One bat-maker contends Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton’s seven-HR barrage in last year’s playoffs was with a torpedo. The early version of the backstory is amazing: An MIT physicist-turned-baseball coach, Aaron Leanhardt, made an observation:

The ‘Torpedo’ bat is all the craze. It’s made Victus Bats in King of Prussia, Pa., the focus of the baseball world.

One of the great features of baseball is how often this old sport learns a new trick. They've been playing the game since the 1800s, yet every season brings an innovation to the forefront. Sometimes it's a completely new idea,

All this talk about torpedo bats has left former American League Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon wondering. The bats, which feature a barrel, or fatter part of the bat, closer to the handle resulting in a tapered end,

Like it or not, the Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz just dumped a ton of fuel on torpedo-style bat conversation that's engulfed MLB.

The Yankees' new "torpedo" bats are the talk of the league coming out of the first weekend of the 2025 MLB season.