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.”

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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The second game of the new season saw the New York Yankees put up a historic offensive performance. The Yankees blew out the Milwaukee Brewers 20-9 on Saturday, thanks to a franch

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Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the oddly-shaped bats and why they're legal.

Amid concern from fans about a potential competitive advantage with the new bats, an MLB spokesperson told The Athletic's Chris Kirschner that "the shape of the bat does not violate the rules." The 2025 MLB rulebook requires bats to be single pieces of solid wood no longer than 42 inches long.

The bats shaped like bowling pins at the end have baseball buzzing after they were used by Yankees players who contributed to a barrage of 15 home runs in the first three games.