Yankees’ opening series bucked MLB lineup tradition — here’s why it worked
As the controversy around the torpedo bats has revealed yet again, we just do not like change as humans — and perhaps no subset fits that mode more than the humans involved in baseball.
The bat has been hiding in plain sight for roughly 150 years, waiting for someone to suggest redistributing the wood — legally, by the way — to the portion with which each individual strikes the ball most often. But rather than concentrate on that, all it took was a weekend of Yankee success against devastated Brewer pitching to divert all conspiracists from the Yeti they saw board a UFO last week to this topic, though every organization has been aware of the design and many have been tinkering with it.
Tradition dies hard in this game.
Which brings us to a catcher hitting leadoff. Or a 37-year-old first baseman.
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