MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting analyst with the Yankees before he joined the Miami Marlins as a field coordinator in the offseason.

The brainchild behind the bat, according to social media posts from former Yankees minor leaguer Kevin Smith, is Aaron Leanhardt, a former MIT physicist who served as the club’s major league analyst last season and was a minor league hitting coordinator in the organization before that.

The torpedo bat's rise has changed the industry for the companies that make them. Here is one bat-maker's story.