Best of the Yankees on WFAN: Damn the torpedos!
Evan & Tiki
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4.2 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't even know where to start, to be honest with it. |
| 0:02.1 | It's got to be the torpedoes. |
| 0:03.7 | Right, so it's got to be the torpedo bats. |
| 0:05.8 | And obviously, analytics catches up to the Yankees in a good way, I guess, |
| 0:10.1 | and has created quite the controversy and quite the stir throughout Major League Baseball. |
| 0:14.7 | Now, here's the good news. |
| 0:16.2 | Aaron Judge does not use a torpedo bat. |
| 0:18.5 | He does not. |
| 0:19.1 | He uses his real bat. |
| 0:25.0 | And that's why Aaron Judge is the ultimate needle move of. |
| 0:26.0 | Needle mover for sure. That's exactly right. |
| 0:26.7 | Obviously, we started something last week. |
| 0:28.6 | But the guys, obviously, that use the torpedo bat as Goldschmidt, Bellinger, Wells, Volpey, and Jazz Chisholm. |
| 0:36.5 | Now, the interesting one is Chisholm because he's got he's got three home runs. |
| 0:42.1 | He's got five heads and he's batting 417. |
| 0:44.9 | Chisholm scores. Yeah, Chisholm scores a lot over the past weekend. And remember when we were |
| 0:50.3 | talking about the Anthony Volpey home run where Dave Sims was like, oh, he fished |
| 0:55.5 | that one out there. And it's like, oh, really looked like he got it on that part of the bat. |
| 0:59.4 | We didn't really know about the torpedo bats at that point. But that exact home run to right |
| 1:04.3 | field where it caught what we thought was not the barrel, caught part of the barrel of the |
| 1:09.9 | torpedo bag. So I guess this is where analytics works, and this has a very Belichickian feel to it, doesn't it? |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, I mean, it's weird because, you know, each sport is so different because, you know, you know, in basketball, the basketball is always the basketball. |
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