Aaron Leanhardt helped develop the first such bats with the Yankees, for whom he worked as a minor-league hitting coach and analyst.

Aaron Leanhardt may not have been a household name in Major League Baseball. But thanks to his invention of the torpedo bat that's taken over the league in 2025, the former MIT physicist has ...

But the development of the uniquely shaped piece of lumber — it looks more like a bowling pin than a traditional bat, with a thicker middle and tapered end — wasn't the result of a life spent around ...

Paul LaMantia and Ryan LaPensee have learned a valuable lesson from early in the 2025 Major League Baseball season.

The person holding court for Monday afternoon’s largest media scrum wasn’t superstars Juan Soto or Francisco Lindor, but ...

The story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron ...

Miami Marlins field coordinator Aaron Leanhardt is the architect behind the New York Yankees' famous "torpedo" bats that caused a media frenzy.

The Pitt News asked Pitt physics chair Andrew Zentner his thoughts on the new bats and the science behind the torpedo-shaped ...

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Meanwhile, the torpedo bats’ inventor — Miami Marlins’ field coordinator Aaron Leanhardt — says the development was a long time coming. “It’s always good to see the game of baseball ...