MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...

Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for six-and-a-half years, had a simple question he was trying to answer when ...

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 ...

Aaron Leanhardt has set the record straight on the innovative bats helping the Yankees shatter home run records.

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

Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe and second baseman Jazz Chisholm are among the players using the new bats. Both hit home runs on opening day. Chisholm added two more on Sunday. The torpedo bat design ...

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

Jazz Chisholm Jr., who is using the model, described the thinking on social media as, “[Y]ou just move the wood from the parts you don’t use to the parts you do.” ...

The baseball world has gotten wrapped up in the New York Yankees' so-called "torpedo" bats over the first few days of the 2025 regular season, even though the architect no longer calls the Bronx home.

Aaron Leanhardt said in a phone interview Sunday morning. “Where are you trying to make contact?” Leanhardt, 48, began his work when he was a member of the Yankees’ minor-league hitting ...

Former Yankees analyst Aaron Leanhardt, who introduced the torpedo bats to the club, said a hitter’s bat speed could potentially increase depending on how the bat is redesigned; Volpe’s bat ...