The New York Yankees have always liked size: big stars, big contracts, big games, big bodies. A short porch in right field, sure—but all the better for hitting big bombs. So perhaps it’s not surprising that, in 2023, when Aaron Leanhardt, who was, at the time, a minor-league hitting coördinator for the team, asked players what might help them overcome the dominance of modern pitching (the league’s batting average was at its lowest point in more than half a century), he found an answer: bigger barrels on their bats.
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