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

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

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 ...

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.

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 "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 ...

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 ...

Aaron Leanhardt, who got his Ph.D in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a physics professor at the University of Michigan, is now a field coordinator with the ...

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