Instead of being built like a traditional bat, the "torpedo bat" has more weight and wood moved to the label in an attempt to increase barrels and decrease mishits. It seems like a genius idea, reportedly developed by a physicist on payroll by the Yankees. And the short-term results were incredible. During the first game the Yankees seemingly used these bats, they clubbed nine home runs and scored a whopping 20 runs against the Milwaukee Brewers. Seven different Yankees crushed home runs.

The 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. Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin, Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered in New York's 20-9 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers. "That's just trying to be the best we can be," manager Aaron Boone said Sunday. "That's one of the things that's gotten pointed out. I say to you guys all the time, we're trying to win on the margins, and that shows up in so many different ways."

“So far, so good,” Volpe said Sunday morning. “It’s cool to look down at and the concept makes so much sense. I know I’m bought in. The bigger you can have the barrel where you’re going to hit the ball makes sense to me. “It’s probably just placebo,” Volpe added with a grin. “A lot of it is looking up at your bat and you see how big the barrel is. But it’s exciting. I think any .001 percent mentally that can give you confidence helps.”