In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is waves, waving sport with its unique design and unprecedented results.
Nicknamed the “Torpille bat”, “ This innovative equipment draws attention after New York Yankees lost 20 points out of the second game of the season.
Up to five players from the team use the new bat.
Mastermide of Torpille Bat
The brain behind the design is Aaron Leanheardt, a former physicist for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has become coach of the Miami Marlins. Leanheardt, who presented the new Bat to the Yankees last season before joining Miami, attributes to the players who took their chance on his first prototypes.
“It is the merit of the players who had the conversations with me two years ago and were ready to be patient zero and to demonstrate the first versions of this,” explains Leanheardt.
He said that players will take some seasons to test bats and get used to them, but ultimately, he hopes to see more and more “bats” through the league.
“All I can say is that I was one of those intelligent guys for so long that he also grew up by swinging these strange old bars,” said Leanheardt. “It is not so far you may know someone who has thought about it, including me.”
Torpille Bat Vs Regular Bat
Dr. David Pritchard is a physicist at MIT and friend of Leanheardt. He said that the classic design physics of baseball bats did not add up.
“When you look at the design of a classic baseball bat, physics simply does not add up,” said Pritchard. “When the ball enters and strikes the Sweet Spot, it folds the bat and therefore part of the energy will fold the bat and that’s what makes the noise.”
The “Torpille bat” addresses the problem by moving the maximum diameter of the bat closer to the ideal point, or the area where the ball comes into contact. According to Pritchard, this change changes the physics of the game.
Torpille bat photos
“The bat is a little bigger there,” said Pritchard. “And therefore, from time to time, land which would have otherwise been a strike is now a fault and all terrain which would have been a little too high and which has been a long fly ball is now a little lower and reviews the fence.”
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What distinguishes the “bat” apart is not only his conception, but the way he incorporates modern physics in the American pastime. Pritchard thinks that this is only the beginning.
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“He adopts a scientific approach to this thing, and using our training, perhaps not in the kingdom, we have planned it,” said Pritchard.
