Snyder’s Soapbox: If the torpedo bats really do improve offense, we should all be thrilled

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Any time changes something in baseball, there is an initial outrage. I love it quite, because it shows that people really care about baseball and give me a chance to mock me on my trusted soap. And, Huo boy, some people were ashamed of the first few days of their 2025 Major League baseball season on this new (ish) so called Torpedo Bats.

He didn’t need the worst responsible, but the returner’s relative Megill did not cover himself in glory with this GEM on the first Saturday of the season.

“I think it’s awful. We’ll see what data they say. I have never seen such a thing before. It’s genius. It’s Bush [league]A number can be. But it is yankees, so they will allow you to slide. ”

To be clear, there is nothing about these bats with a letter of law, nor did the bats have been bats or used only by the Yankees. Last season, they used several players, and a few players have already said they don’t like them. But some players like them and when Megille comments, the Yankees had just earned 20 runs against carpets.

Sounds like sour cream and painfully lost situation, no.

Easy lists for soap.

However, you don’t have to dive into the future. I would like to point out that every word here Commissioner Rob Manfred is in place:

“They are absolutely good for baseball. Those things when you have discussions and discussions about it. “

I often don’t return to his public comments, but this was just an absolute perfection.

Let me close where he said it’s good for baseball and takes this point a little better.

Suppose the bats put the blows better. Good

The game has been more and more dominant pitchers over the past decades. I know that there is a subdivision of baseball fans there who loved the “approach” these days and claim that the “problem” tries to hit at home every time. It’s a crazy line of argument, but it’s quite common.

The real answer is what Chris Brian told me in 2021, which is that “the big league pitchers are really really good.”

The average speed continues to raise compared to the 1980s and even in the 1990s. The movement is sharper than ever, and there is much more variety in movement than it has been previously. The words continue to innovate the level that we listen to words such as cleansing and fragile and sprinkling, and it will continue that way. Bark and changes are deeper than they have ever been. And again, everything is faster. They still hit the spots and change speed too.

At the same time, the hook has not been moved or down because I am well before I was born (and I am not very young).

The maritime moving warriors are not scandal. It is not an innovation, unlike pits, in better ways, speed and movement with holes.

And again, if those bats really have a great advantage for strikes, the game needs it.

Just look at what happened to the League abundance average.

1999. .271
2004 ..266
2009.262
2014: .251
2019.252:
2024. .243

And despite all the hands, when it comes to these bats and poor pitchers, who have to deal with this monstrous, cheating strikes, the League average. 239 is.

Forgive me to not think of the equipment piece improvement to worry about a crush hand. In fact, it is better in the established rules, it is something that should be hugged. I just wish it was better that it’s passed.

Rock On, Hitters.