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 ...

The Yankees just clobbered a MLB record 15 home runs in their first three games thanks in part to a new style of bat ...

Leanhardt was asked why it took so long for baseball to come up with the "torpedo bat" concept. "All I can say is I was one of those smart guys for so long that grew up swinging those old, weird ...

The reaction across MLB to the design of the New York Yankees' new 'torpedo' bats after the Bronx Bombers belted 13 home runs in two games was swift.

The Baltimore Orioles were “ahead of the curve” on the unique design, two sources with direct knowledge told The Baltimore ...

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

Before he was putting his intellect to use crafting a baseball bat that would allow the New York Yankees to tie home run records, Aaron Leanhardt spent years studying and teaching physics.

He had not only met Aaron Leanhardt, the physicist-turned-baseball coach who created the bats. He’d managed him in an amateur baseball league in Boston more than two decades ago.

MIAMI — For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it’s more about the talent of the players than their lumber at ...

Aaron Leanhardt has set the record straight on the innovative bats helping the Yankees shatter home run records. A aron Leanhardt is the mastermind behind the now-famous—and somewhat ...

MIAMI — At the plate early this season, Francisco Lindor has been ready to fire away. Lindor used a so-called “torpedo bat” during the Mets’ season-opening series against the Astros ...

MLB field coordinators don't generally draw media scrums. But when you're Aaron "Lenny" Leanhardt, innovator of the suddenly famous "torpedo bat," you're the exception to the rule. Leanhardt is ...