This year the club introduced a new bat featuring what they call a “Torpedo Barrel,” and it’s quite literally breaking the game of baseball. This was most apparent on Saturday night in a 20-9 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in which the Yankees hit an astonishing nine home runs across seven players.

The Yankees have just done something pretty wild. They hit 22 home runs in just six games, which is a new record for any team in MLB history. And get this, they did it against the

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.

Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game

Check out some of the home runs hit this season by players using torpedo bats.

On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including the online hysteria surrounding the ‘torpedo bats‘ in MLB.

On the off-chance anyone is still in the dark, the torpedo bat is potentially the most exciting innovation to hit MLB in a long time. A bat model that is thickest where the hitter is most likely to make contact?

Torpedo Bats on cards and Jackson Merrill has 8 different autograph variations in the latest edition of Above the Mantel

New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695 feet on Saturday.

The Arizona Diamondbacks take on the New York Yankees Thursday in the finale of a three-game series at Yankee Stadium. Arizona won the first two games.

A low strikeout rate and high barrel rate have traditionally been the type of pitchers the Yankees have had so much success against. That’s because, for what amounts to essentially the Aaron Judge era, New York has been in the Top 5 in barrel rate and the Bottom 5 in strikeout rate. This season isn’t any different.

Its Thursday, April 3 and the Diamondbacks (4-2) are in the Big Apple looking for the three-game sweep of the Yankees. Merrill Kelly is slated to take the mound for Arizona against Carlos Carrasco for New York.

Preview the April 2 matchup between the New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks with recent trends, how to watch, livestream info, and more.

This affiliate content is not influenced by our advertising relationships, but AP and Data Skrive might earn commissions from our partners’ links in this content.

Check out our Arizona Diamondbacks vs. New York Yankees how to watch guide to learn when they play and what free live streams are available ahead of the first pitch.