• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    4 days ago

    Outlaw the Torpedo Bat…

    Baseball traditionalists like myself are having a stroke watching Vlope and Jazz actually make contact with this new bat and rightfully so. Again, you can’t just make a new bat and ruin over 100 years of baseball to allow guys to actually hit and not be a complete mess at the plate.

    Dude what? They made a better bat. It’s not some gimmick just slightly different dimensions. Once everyone is on a level playing field so what? It’ll make baseball a bit more exciting.

    • Kichae@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      It’s not even clear it’s a better bat. Sweet spot might be a little bigger, but there are lots of reasons why the Yankees might light up a team. And it’s not like “let’s move the centre of mass closer to the hands” is some kind of magical insight. There’s now way this hasn’t been done before.

      We’ll need a much larger sample size than this to determine whether it’s actually better.