Yankees’ opening series bucked MLB lineup tradition — here’s why it worked

Source: New York Post

Access the Yankees beat like never before Don’t miss Greg Joyce’s text messages from The Bronx and beyond — he’s giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Yankees. Sign Up Now 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.