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 ...

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?” ...

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 "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 ...

And the designer of the bat actually works for the Miami Marlins. His name is Aaron Leanhardt. The Most Popular Man in Miami : Aaron Leanhardt (AKA Lenny, AKA The Godfather of The Torpedo ...

Aaron Leanhardt. His vision was to distribute the bat's mass across areas where some players make contact more frequently, thereby optimizing their offensive output in a way that normal bats did not.

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.

EARLY IN THE 2023 season, Aaron Leanhardt started asking New York Yankees hitters what they needed to perform better. He was a minor league hitting coordinator for the team, and with league-wide ...

Aaron Leanhardt was hired away from MIT by the Yankees in 2018 and soon put his Ph.D in physics and bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering to use developing a novel shape of a bat ...

When Aaron Leanhardt was a graduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was part of a research team that cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded ...

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 ...