The story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt.

The person holding court for Monday afternoon’s largest media scrum wasn’t superstars Juan Soto or Francisco Lindor, but newly nicknamed “El Torpedo.” Aaron Leanhardt, the Marlins’ unassuming field ...

Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for six-and-a-half years, had a simple question he was trying to answer when ...

Advertisement The question at its center? “Where are you trying to hit the ball?” Aaron Leanhardt said in a phone interview Sunday morning. “Where are you trying to make contact?” ...

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

MIAMI — At the plate early this season, Francisco Lindor has been ready to fire away. Lindor used a so-called “torpedo bat” during the Mets’ season-opening series against the Astros ...

He had not only met Aaron Leanhardt, the physicist-turned-baseball coach who created the bats. He’d managed him in an amateur baseball league in Boston more than two decades ago.

Aaron Leanhardt, who got his Ph.D in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a physics professor at the University of Michigan, is now a field coordinator with the ...

MLB field coordinators don't generally draw media scrums. But when you're Aaron "Lenny" Leanhardt, innovator of the suddenly famous "torpedo bat," you're the exception to the rule. Leanhardt is ...

Aaron Leanhardt may not have been a household name in Major League Baseball. But thanks to his invention of the torpedo bat that's taken over the league in 2025, the former MIT physicist has ...

Miami Marlins field coordinator Aaron Leanhardt is the architect behind the New York Yankees' famous "torpedo" bats that caused a media frenzy.