The New York Yankees may have introduced the next big thing in hitting to the baseball world during Saturday’s 20-9 drubbing of the Milwaukee Brewers.
As the Yankees mashed a franchise-record nine home runs in the win, a notable change to the Bronx Bombers’ bat was pointed out by YES Network’s play-by-play broadcaster, Michael Kay.
The Yankee front office, the analytics department, did a study on Anthony Volpe, and every single ball it seemed like he hit on the label,” Kay said during the broadcast. “He didn’t hit any on the barrel, so they had bats made up where they moved a lot of the wood into the label, so the harder part of the bat is going to actually strike the ball.”
New York’s new invention wasn’t newly…