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 ...

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.

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.

The torpedo bat has become one of the most talked about aspects of the the 2025 MLB season. While it may not have been a household name just yet among baseball fans, it may not be long before the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.