Yankees’ new bats may be benefiting from rulebook
The New York Yankees clubbed a franchise-record 9 house runs on Saturday afternoon — together with three from reigning American League MVP Aaron Choose — in a 20-9 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. That brings their two-game complete this season to 11 house runs. That could be a lot.
That may even carry some additional consideration to a chunk of knowledge that YES announcer Michael Kay dropped throughout Saturday’s broadcast.
The Yankees are utilizing new bats this season that transfer extra of the wooden into the label space, making certain that the toughest a part of the bat strikes the ball. Meaning the thickest a part of the bat is nearer to the center of it, versus the highest barrel half.
In line with Kay, the Yankees analytics division discovered shortstop Anthony Volpe hardly ever hit balls with the barrel of his bat and was nearly all the time hitting balls within the label space. That prompted the Yankees to have the bats made redistributing the placement of the wooden.
The dialogue occurred throughout a Jazz Chisholm at-bat, with Chisholm utilizing one of many newly designed bats.
It’s value noting that Chisholm was one of many Yankees to homer in Saturday’s recreation.
