Kevin Smith, and he can’t stress this part enough, is not a scientist. But Aaron “Lenny” Leanhardt, the MIT-educated physicist who left academia for a behind-the-scenes career in baseball certainly is one.

The New York Yankees’ torpedo bats set baseball on fire over the weekend, and it wasn’t jus the Milwaukee Brewers that felt the force of those new bats.

The Washington Nationals are a rebuilding team that's finally starting to show real progress after a rough half-decade, but the New York Yankees' 'torpedo' bats

We have so many questions and so few answers at this point,” the family shared on social media Sunday as they mourned Miller Gardner.

The Rangers later traded Wilson to the Yankees for future considerations on March 2, 2018. The Yankees allowed him to play in a spring-training game — sending him to the plate as a pinch hitter for Aaron Judge against Max Fried of the Braves.

With 15 home runs in their first three games, the New York Yankees are flexing their muscles thanks to bats created by former Michigan physicist.

After allowing 15 home runs in three games, the Brewers didn't make excuses: "It's not like some magical wood or anything else."

"The Yankees are bringing a lot of publicity to them with their performance thus far, but they weren’t a secret in the industry prior to this weekend.” An AL executive meanwhile told Feinsand they believe the Yankees tying an MLB record with 15 home runs in their first three games of the 2025 season will help bring more publicity to the bats.