Keenan Long of LongBall Labs talks Torpedo Bats & Much More

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Baseball, Sports

4.9 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Eno is joined by Keenan Long of LongBall Bats to talk everything bats. He talks about the process of finding the right bat for a player, the different types of bats & handles, the sudden rise of the torpedo bat, what's in the future for bats and much more. Rundown 1:01- Process of finding the right bat for players 5:41- Common bat terminology 16:09- Different types of bats 19:24- Torpedo Bat breaks out & what's the give and take of the bat 25:40- Increased data has cause bat changes 31:08- Different types of handles on bats 33:06- What's in the future for bat technology 39:07- Torpedo bats have been around Follow Eno on Bluesky: @enosarris.bsky.social Follow DVR on Bluesky: @dvr.bsky.social e-mail: [email protected] Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/FyBa9f3wFe Subscribe to The Athletic: theathletic.com/ratesandbarrels Hosts: Eno Sarris Producer: Brian Smith Executive Producer: Derek VanRiper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Robert Vinlo and I'm from New York Times Games and I'm here talking to people about
0:04.0	wordle and the Wordle Archive. Do you all play a wordle?
0:06.0	I play it every day.
0:07.0	Alright, I have something exciting to show you. It's the Wordle Archive.
0:10.0	What?
0:11.0	Oh, okay, that's awesome.
0:13.0	So now you can play every wordle that has ever existed. There's like a thousand puzzles.
0:17.0	What?
0:18.0	Wordle Archive.
0:19.0	Oh, cool! Now you can do yesterday's wordle if you missed it.
0:23.6	Yeah.
0:24.6	New York Times game subscribers can now access the entire Wordle Archive.
0:27.6	Find out more at NYTimes.com slash games. All right, welcome to Rates and Barrels, everybody.
0:45.1	This is a special episode.
0:47.0	DBR has the day off, and I get to talk to one of my favorite people in the bat world.
0:52.7	Kenan Long of Longball Labs.
0:55.2	We sat down a long time ago at a winter meetings
0:59.5	where you were trying to get Longball Labs off of the ground.
1:06.1	You were trying to start it, for it to even be a thing.
1:10.0	But the same idea that you had all those years ago at the winter meetings when we,
1:15.0	we had a beverage was what you have done.
1:20.1	You've accomplished it.
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