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

Aaron Leanhardt may not have been a household name in Major League Baseball. But thanks to his invention of the torpedo bat that's taken over the league in 2025, the former MIT physicist has ...

Long before his oddly shaped bat became the talk of baseball, Aaron Leanhardt played in the Boston Metro Baseball League. He wasn’t the only guy on the team to reach the big leagues.

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 story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron ...

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

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 ...

Advertisement The question at its center? “Where are you trying to hit the ball?” Aaron Leanhardt said in a phone interview Sunday morning. “Where are you trying to make contact?” ...

The person holding court for Monday afternoon’s largest media scrum wasn’t superstars Juan Soto or Francisco Lindor, but ...

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 ...

For decades, baseball’s most famous struggle has remained unchanged: batters facing down fast-moving pitchers, trying to make ...

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 ...