Two years ago, the Yankees analytics department, including MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt, started collecting data on the shortstop's hitting tendencies. The objective was to figure out and narrow ...

New York Yankees hitter Cody Bellinger breaks his torpedo bat during the eighth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday. (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images/Reuters Connect) I watch a lot of ...

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 ...

It's not often a field coordinator is the biggest star on the team, but there's been a ton of attention on Aaron Leanhardt over the past week as the innovative bats he's credited with creating ...

So perhaps it’s not surprising that, in 2023, when Aaron Leanhardt, who was, at the time, a minor-league hitting coördinator for the team, asked players what might help them overcome the ...

Some of the Bronx Bombers are using this altered bat design, courtesy of Aaron Leanhardt, a former University of Michigan physicist. Leanhardt spoke about the hottest new trend in baseball ...

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.

This bat was designed by Aaron Leanhardt is a former physics professor and current field coordinator for the Miami Marlins, and his new design has sparked excitement amongst players and fans.

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.