Jazz Chisholm Jr struck three circuits in three games with the Bato Bat.Photography: Pamela Smith / AP
In its brief moment of fame, the Batpedo made the whole impression in MLB. During the weekend, New York Yankees used the bat, designed by an educated MIT teacher, as an instrument of destruction Against the unfortunate Milwaukee Brewers. Since then, I have heard of bats so often that they presented themselves in my dreams. And that makes sense, because before this weekend, even in a band like the Yankee Stadium, even for a franchise which presents tastes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gheirig and Mickey Mantle, such a power of Home Run could only have been prepared in the sweetest of their fans base. Such a muscle display was less video game and more drawings drawn, as in The famous Bugs rabbit clip 1946 This saw the gas gorillas accelerate 46 consecutive races against distinguished total tea.
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In case you have missed it, the Yankees, minus the 68 circuits of the Juan Soto, now left, and the injured Giancarlo Steon, provided a record for new circuits in a match, 15 circuits in three games and 36 points in total against the Brewers. We are talking about a team of Yankees who counted five mistakes on Saturday and Still won by 11 points.
Torpille bats, roughly the only thing that could eclipse the bastard of the opening day by MLB thanks to the Crashing of its own applicationis another example of how the Surveue can ruin baseball. The engineers who proposed the bats are cousins ​​of the scientists of statistics which brought us the analyzes which slowly sucked the entertainment of the sport, and the experts in physics who found scientifically modified launchers who sank the sticks of 2024 of all the teams except six to less than 0.250.
The last over-innovation moves most of the wood in the bat in the personalized area where the striker is most likely to hit the hardest balloon. The enlarged sweetspot, which gives a player a better chance to create good contact is perfectly logical, and frankly, it is incredibly intelligent. And yes, the strikers need something, anything, to bring part of the games of launchers who have shrunk the medium -sized thickness for years. Now they have done it.
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That said, 15 circuits in three games? This is a problem. After the victory of the Yankees 12-3 against the Brewers on Sunday, their radio voice Suzyn Waldman was trying to explain the problem of the torpedo, saying that it is not new, that the exit speed is similar between traditional bats and torpedoes, that other teams use them and that the problem will be a discussion point for a while until everyone is moving.
This is partly true: the other players in the league play with bats, and it is not entirely new. But New York, thanks to 2022 Hiring of the key brain of the bat, Aaron LeanhardtWho has a third cycle diploma in MIT physics, are apparently more in Torpille bats than any other team. If New York – or any other team that decides to adopt the bat – continue to strike like this in the long term, this will transform the scores of the box in pranks and spoil the integrity of the game in a way that we have not seen from the era of steroids.
It must be said that some players and coaches from other teams Don’t seem to have a problem with the new bats. “It is always a human who must hit him,” said Stephen Vogt, manager of Cleveland Guardians. “It is not the batch that strikes the Homer.”
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Exchange the “bat” for “PEDS”, and it is a common defense for the election of Barry Bonds in the temple of fame. In this case, an important distinction is that bats are completely legal, the Yankees have broken any rule of the game. By coincidence, the early adoption of bats by links was, to a large extent, somewhat controversial.
The reason he started using Maple and Peds, is the same reason why the Torpille bat is in the news today – players and teams are continuously looking for an advantage. And right now, the Yankees get it.
Now that we are here, I have several questions. Will Torrid Stretch from New York continue? Will this technology be adopted by other teams and players? If this happens, will more games become ridiculic? And should bats be prohibited? If Torpille’s bats are prohibited – and there is no indication that we are to come – then why did the Yankees wait for the playoffs to reveal their secret weapon? Now this would surely have struggled on their “Evil Empire” label of the Dodgers.
There is a warning here. Aaron judge smoked the Brewers – one of his four circuits in the series went 468 feet – without The torpedo bat. And then, Monday, the Royals crushed the brewers 11-1. As far as we know, the Royals do not have Torpille bats, leading us to the conclusion that, rather than being victims of technology, the brewers are just … bad. But if the power overvoltage of the Yankees continues for another two weeks, MLB will probably have no choice but to ban bats, legal or not, as part of the “Best interest in baseball” clause. It would be another embarrassing mess for baseball, as Leandhardt told athletics that “it was a group effort, the results from conversations with coaches, players, MLB and bat manufacturers”. So, unless we all do excessively, MLB may have botched the deployment of this new technology by not unilaterally taking the use of clubs.
The good news is that compound torpedo bats could actually serve as a long-term response to suffering strikers. This could be vital for a sport that needs a more dynamic and less offense of the three more and more predictable and boring results: a walk, a withdrawal or a home run. For the moment, to the chagrin of the fans of the Yankees, I put the toy in the box, I was doing research and development in minor leagues and reintroduces a more refined product in a few seasons.
