Lowering the rotational inertia will increase bat speed but I think the real advantage is finding where the hitter usually contacts the bat and making that the widest part. It just like these oversized drivers these days in golf, try playing with the smaller drivers of the 80s and you won’t do as well.
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In just three games they are averaging 12 runs a game. I know that won’t hold up over 162 but that is damn impressive
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Thats it more than anything.
The widest part of the bat is the area that makes the most frequent contact.
The area is no wider than most bats and not wider than the max diameter of a bat allowed by MLB
But also, the area has the most mass behind the ball when struck. Pushing more mass into the ball.
Toadsworth had it figured out 20 years ago.
I will if Im in a scramble!
Look at Chisolm’s HR Line, it was 28.5, he has never had more than 24 in a season, already at 3.
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Yep, it’s guys like that where you can really see the difference. Judge could hit homers with a tooth pick, he doesnt a torpedo bat.
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He has 35 HR pop. Amazing wrists. He just hasnt been healthy a full year and he is reaching peak at age 27, whixh he just turned. Age 25/26-28/29 a lot of times is a player’s athletic/production peak.
Last 3 years
14 hr 60 games
19 hr 97 games
24 hr 147 games, but 11 in 46 w Yankees.
35 is a legit projection given 145 games
He is a 30/50 peak talent
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The guy weighs 58 pounds, and thirty of those is his chains.
I’ll eat my lucky leopard skin thongs if he hits 35 homers.
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Been texting with two scouts on this subject, neither of whom think it is a big deal. Bat was used last year apparently and they think this is getting noise due to the 9HR’s the Yankees hit in a game this weekend.
To which the comment was made; was it the torpedo bats or was it the Brewers starting pitching? Also there was only one HR hit in that game that would only have been a HR in Yankee Stadium.
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Actually, I take that back.
He started using that new bat when he went to the Yankees last year. Coupled with that band box he plays in, 35 does seem more than achievable.
Yer a pretty smart fella Wease
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Per ESPN, both the Braves and the Marlins have put in orders for torpedo bats.
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The guy who came up with that is gonna be rich.
I bet it was Connor Stallions.
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Im a big Jazz honk, player and genre.
Probably my favorite looking card in my collection. 22 of 25 made, team color match.
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I would bet my life on this… Huge nothing burger once again… NY media hyping bs sandwiches
The O’s hit 12 homers the 1st 3 games vs the Jays… Crickets about their bats. Cause they rarely use these new ones
These bats have been around for years already.
I hate the Yankees more than anyone… But Vlad, Bo and Judge himself aint using them.
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I just like in the last half hour did a baseball team draft- 15 guys, snake draft, pick 2 MLB teams. Combined wins is the only metric.$ 25 in, winner gets 275, 2nd 100.
I drafted 11 and 20, and got the Snakes at 11(!) and the Blue Jays at 20!. The Torpedo teams all moved up…
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What if… The Brewers pitchers just stank in a home run friendly stadium. Amazes me how people fall for this stuff over and over
Yankees also are using new torpedo cheerleaders. They double as bouncers.
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If you wanna really know why home runs are way up…
Look into the baseballs. 
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Well, White Sox put up a shit load of runs against Brewer pitching today. fwiw
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