Neil Tyson on the “Torpedo” Bats

Neil Tyson on the “Torpedo” Bats

So, what they’re calling a tor or torpedo bat. I’m wondering, somebody should have invented this decades ago because in retrospect, it looks quite simple. Um, notice in the bat, we have the same width for a big part of the length of that barrel. And so, that allows you to hit it at almost any part of this bat and get sort of maximal quote wood behind it. But what they’ve decided and figured out is some players always hit the ball in a particular part of the bat. And if that’s the case, why don’t you concentrate the the sweet spot into that one place? And so if you do that, then when they make contact, the ball will go farther than it otherwise would if it didn’t have that specially tailored sweet spot for