The sports world is abuzz about the Yankees winning a ball game with something called a "torpedo bat". It's actually nothing new. Every kid who ever played sandlot ball knows that some bats work for you and some don't.
Evidently, the batting coach did some analytics and found that each hitter is different and had some bats made that match the hitter. Good analytics, because it worked for him. But every kid who ever played baseball knows that a bat has a sweet spot, and when you connect that spot with the ball, magic happens. That same kid knows that if you can get to West Main Street in Louisville, the factory will make a bat designed just for you.
Baseball will survive the torpedo bat, just as surely as it survived lights on the field. Every good pitcher knows his hitter, and if he's hitting low and away, then give him high and inside. Work the corners and keep him guessing.
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I'm not a fan of the idea just because I'm not a fan of "Homer Ball" where everyone's trying to hit it out of the park.
Takes too much of the strategy and drama out of the game. I want to see singles, and doubles and bunts and steals and squeeze plays.
That's what makes watching baseball fun to me...not seeing everybody swinging for the fences and getting a strikeout, a flyout or a homer.
I miss the days of Rod Carew or Tony Gwinn working a pitcher over for a dozen pitches just to pop one over the shortstop's head for a single (and often an RBI).
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