The Yankees Have Nobody To Blame But Themselves Once Bryce Harper Hits A Bazillion Dingers With A Torpedo Bat
One thing I don't understand is what was the Yankees' plan here? Did they think they'd bring these new bats into the game and nobody else would notice? That nobody else would even consider using the magic cheat code bat? Like did they think they just had dibs on the torpedo bat, and everybody else would respect the dibs?
No, man. That's now how this shit works. Now they've created an arms race. You can't show up with a bat that magically obliterates every ball to outer space, and then not expect every other team to do the same thing. Once Bryce Harper gets his hands on a torpedo bat, the home insurance premiums in the greater Philadelphia area are going to go through the roof because there are going to be baseballs flying around all over the place.
I don't know how they could have done it, but it just feels like there's a way where the Yankees could have kept this a little more hidden. A way to go about using the torpedo bat that didn't immediately result in Bryce Harper putting in an order for a hundred of them. Just keep your head on a swivel if you're sitting in the 2nd deck at any point this summer at Citizens Bank Park.