Sports Bettors Are Raking It in on Yankees’ Home Runs Betting Markets

The New York Yankees have begun the season with one success after the next, and they have been breaking records as they have gone along.

The Yankees Spur Interest for Homerun Markets

Notably, the baseball franchise has managed to score an unprecedented number of homeruns, fueling sports betting frenzy for this type of market, and helping prescient gamblers to secure early-day payouts on their long-shot wagers that turned out a success.

In the opening three games of the season alone, the Yankees scored 15 home runs. They did 9 home runs in a single game last weekend when they played against the Milwaukee Brewers and are having one of the very best seasons of their franchise’s history.

However, bettors who have been following the customization of the team’s bats have known for a while that the Yankees are developing a theoretically sounder tool.

Dubbed “torpedo bats,” the teams’ new bats have been conceptualized by former MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt, who has come up with a bat that made the “sweet spot” area bigger, making it easier for a player to bat away a pitch.

Some analysts and fans have grumbled about the unfair advantage that these new bats have offered, but the new bats were cleared by Major League Baseball.

Torpedo Bats Isn’t Cheating but Feels Wrong

The organization allows teams to customize their bats, providing they meet certain criteria, which the torpedo bats did.

The markets around home runs are now exploding at sportsbooks, with more adventurous sports fans also venturing to combine those with parlays and different combo wagers. Whether the Yankees’ home run bonanza lasts remains to be seen.

As one observer put it, though – the Yankees are not cheating with their new torpedo bats, but it still feels wrong.