This is what analytics get you - bats tailor-made to have the most mass where you typically hit the ball. The batter's equivalent to the analytics in defensive positioning that has lead to a drop in averages, although it'll probably have a much less effect.
In our universe, it really is no different than getting golf clubs fit for you.
Torpedo Bats
Bring back the old TaylorMade "bubble" shafts! Torpedo!!
Sneakylong Was there not already more wood in the barrel of the bat? I believe that’s why it was called the barrel. I’m a Yankee fan but I can barely stand baseball anymore. Home run or strikeout. The Yankees had 5 errors that game, too bad the MIT guy can’t also make a glove 
professor Isn't it Ironic that Deflate Gate apologist posts about a new and highly questionable product? Doesn't MLB have standards and criterion for the parameters of bats? LOL
Any Red Sox fans in this thread?
Not questionable at all. For now. Meets the criteria for MLB. Now if everyone adopts this new bat and homeruns start flying out of ball parks like crazy then they'll probably take a look at it.
Kind of like the belly and broomstick putters. They didn't have a problem with them until they started winning Majors.
Deflategate??? Really??? They went on to win that game 45-7. That was in 2015. Brady went on to win a lot more games after that. Try to come up with something a little more analogous than that bullshit. lol
I wonder if moving the mass closer to the handle will make outside pitches more effective. Then batters are going to stand closer to the plate and get clocked by pitches.
several hitters and pitchers quoted in articles have made that point - less mass at end of barrel = worse contact on pitches away
Next thing will be to have "fittings." They'll tailor where the fat part is to where each player hits the ball most times.
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Ohhhh bats!
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Damn
Pitcher’s will just be working the corners more
Baaab
Exactly.
Judge is not using one too.
Sneakylong An MIT Physicist
Why did it take a physicist to figure this out?
“Really,” he said. “It’s just about making the bat as heavy and as fat as possible in the area where you’re trying to do damage on the baseball.”
I'm loving torpedo bats, I was just in Laughlin and did a little sports betting- kept it simple, bet the over on all the Yankee and dodger games and won everytime!
Should be less balls out of play/fouled.
From looking at that bulge & roll.
Did anyone catch what the MOI was?
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An interesting story about LS bats is one of my bud's dad was a major league player back in the fifties and used the LS bats. Every pro player who uses them gets his signature on the bat. My bud checked with H & B back in the 80's and was told that they still had his dad's signature on file. They made him 5 new bats with his dad's signature on it for his dad's birthday. 
This whole topic is based off one series against the Brewers at NYY Stadium a known launching pad in MLB. Against a injury plagued Brewers pitching staff. Brewers got shelled again Monday 11-1 vs. the Royals at their home opener with their patch work staff.
A long term stats. using the bats will show how effective they are. Maybe it's just against crappy pitching? 
