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.

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Todd Pennington, owner of baseball training facility Balls N Strikes, spoke on the bats and noted his thoughts on them potentially making their way to diamonds in the Heartland. “I definitely could see it going into the high school game,” Pennington said. “The bat companies have different fads. They want different bats so they can sell more.”

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