Outside The Confines: Damn the torpedoes

Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty ImagesI don’t know whether I’m paying tribute to David Farragut or Tom Petty.

The Yankees hit nine home runs against the Brewers on Saturday and many were quick to credit/blame New York’s new “torpedo” bats. Jack Baer has an explanation on what makes these bats different and no, they aren’t illegal.

Brewers pitcher Trevor Megill thinks the torpedo bat should be made illegal.

Jared Greenspan has reaction from throughout MLB on the torpedo bats.

I’m not going to vouch for the accuracy of this graph, but it’s an illustration about how much better the torpedo bats are than normal bats. [Bluesky link] So if this is accurate, they are a slight improvement but hardly any…