Like a submarine with a torpedo, or perhaps a torpedo-shaped bat smacking a baseball, Jazz Chisholm Jr. is firing back at Dave Portnoy and anyone else who may be accusing the Yankees of cheating.
To start the new season, five Yankees hitters have been using the torpedo bats that YES Network announcer Michael Kay pointed out to viewers during the Yankees’ 20-9 win over the Brewers on Saturday. He described the bats as having more wood moved into the label’s spot on the bat.
But Chisholm set the record straight on X and refuted his home announcer’s claims.
“Okay explanation the barrel is bigger and within mlb regulation!” he said. “For the idiots that say it’s moved to the label you’re an idiot! Nobody is trying to get jammed you just move the wood from the parts you don’t use to the parts you do! You’re welcome no more stress for y’all!”
But Chisholm had even more to say in response to Portnoy.
The Barstool Sports founder and Red Sox fan posted a two-and-a-half-minute rant on X about his frustrations with the Yankees’ new bats.
Portnoy, “a guy [who] won the triple-crown in high school” and “mashed” home runs, called the Bombers cheaters for reinventing their bats.
“This is a high school baller talking,” Chisholm, who has done a bit more with his baseball career than Portnoy, wrote under the post.
In response to a commenter defending Portnoy’s rant, Chisholm furthered his trolling of the Barstool honcho.
“Doesn’t mean he knows the sport that I’m a pro in and he tried when he was a kid,” the Yankees star said. “Another clown take.”
Chisholm has swatted three homers already through three games — is the torpedo bat to thank?
Well, the 27-year-old star had 24 homers in 147 games last season with the Marlins and Yankees and noted that he “Was an all star before using it!”
Portnoy also claimed that Aaron Judge, who has mashed four home runs and 11 RBI in three games, is using the torpedo bats to which Chisholm responded, “Judge got over 300 home runs and 3 mvps you know for damn sure he not using them.”
Austin Wells, Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt and Anthony Volpe joined the fad with Chisholm, but not Judge — the most prodigious power hitter in the Yankees lineup and perhaps all of baseball.
If nothing else, that’s one point that Portnoy can’t deny.
