Best of the Week: 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe
2 Pros and a Cup of Joe
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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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This week on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Torpedo Bats have similarities with DeflateGate. The Old P, Petros Papadakis talks Dodgers hot start to the season, Colorado extending Deion Sanders, Val Kilmer passing away and movies after the club. The great Tim Brown stops by to talk about how the game has changed since his playing days.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the best of two pros and a couple of Joe with LaBar Arrington, |
| 0:10.7 | Brady Quinn and Jonas Knox on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:17.8 | Well, the New York Yankees have created a little bit of a controversy, if you will. |
| 0:22.8 | If you haven't been following Major League Baseball in the opening season so far, how things have been going, the Yankees are mashing the ball. |
| 0:32.7 | That's in part due to this torpedo bat. |
| 0:37.1 | Now, there's a little bit of research behind this. |
| 0:40.7 | It was done by the data analytics department. |
| 0:43.4 | In particular, an MIT physicist, Aaron Leanhart, I believe, or Linehart is his name. |
| 0:50.6 | But they aim to optimize this sweet spot and by increasing the likelihood of solid contact reducing misses. |
| 0:58.0 | So what they did with the bat instead of the bat kind of building up to the barrel of the end of the bat, |
| 1:03.3 | they created the hardest part of the bat closer to the label because they noticed that a lot of players |
| 1:08.8 | were making more contact consistently |
| 1:10.9 | with the label. |
| 1:12.1 | So they've made that the harder part of the bat. |
| 1:15.0 | How has that impacted? |
| 1:16.5 | Well, so far, the Yankees have scored 36 runs in three games, outpacing their |
| 1:23.3 | opponents in the Amo League by 22 runs. |
| 1:27.1 | There is a team averaging 333. |
| 1:30.4 | That's what their batting is so far. |
| 1:33.0 | And yes, it's a small sample size. |
| 1:34.9 | But I think for anyone who watched them, Mash, what was at? |
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