There are five Yankees currently using the “torpedo bats” that had their explosive regular season debut last weekend.

And while the testing out of those bats across the sport appears ready to spread like wildfire – ESPN reported during its Sunday Night Baseball broadcast that Atlanta had already ordered a supply and the bats have been a hot topic for two days now in 29 other clubhouses – it very much remains to be seen just how widespread their use becomes.

Starting in the Yankees clubhouse.

Because as much has been made of the Yankees using those bats – the list, at the moment, comprises Jazz Chisholm Jr., Anthony Volpe, Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger and Austin Wells – it is also currently true that the number of Yankees not using the bats is larger than the number using them.

And that list, of course, starts with Aaron Judge.

“What I did the past couple seasons speaks for itself,” Judge said with a smile late Sunday morning. “Why try to change something if you have something that’s working?”

Had the 32-year-old at least tried one of the new bats out, even behind the scenes?

“I have not,” Judge said.

“There’s a lot of new things in the game,” Judge continued. “Like, they’ve added the little hockey puck on the bottom of some guys’ bats to add a counterweight; you’ve got the torpedo bats, you’ve got so many different things. As my career goes on, maybe I can start adding some of those in if I start losing something, but I’m good where I’m at right now.”

Using a traditional bat, Judge last weekend became the first Yankee, and just the 13th player in league history, to hit at least four homers in his team’s first three games of a season. Let alone what he’s done in his career, which includes a pair of AL MVP seasons – in 2022 when he hit an AL-record 62 homers and again last year when Judge hit 58.

Which is not to say there is nothing to the new bats, the brainchild of, according to multiple social media posts from former Yankees minor leaguer Kevin Smith, former MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt, who served as the Yankees’ major league analyst last season. Leanhardt, who was hired this offseason by the Marlins, before joining the Yankees’ big-league club in 2024 had previously worked in their organization as a minor league hitting coordinator.

“I know Lenny was working really hard on it,” Volpe said Sunday.

The bats differ from the more traditional models as they have additional wood mass past the label of the bat – giving the lower part of the bat an almost bowling pin-like look – which essentially makes for a bigger sweet spot.

“The bigger you can have the barrel where you’re going to hit the ball makes sense to me,” Volpe said.

Said Bellinger: “I think the benefit for me is I like the weight distribution, personally. The weight’s closer to my hands, so I feel it’s lighter in a way. That for me was the biggest benefit. And then, obviously, the bigger the sweet spot, the bigger the margin for error.”

Major League Baseball, like pretty much every other sports enterprise, is a copycat league and with the Yankees totaling 15 homers in their first three games for the first time in franchise history – a total that includes the franchise-record nine homers they hit Saturday – it’s not surprising players elsewhere scampered to get in touch with their bat reps about trying out a torpedo model.

Anything deemed by hitters, whose craft has never been more difficult, as having a chance to make their job even a fraction easier will be, and should be, explored.

But it is far too soon to declare the new model as transformative for the game. It may turn out to be, but it could also fall by the wayside after its 15 minutes in the spotlight, the most likely reason for the latter being because those bats suddenly felt far less comfortable during the inevitable 1-for-25 slide every major leaguer goes through, and that hitter will decided it’s time to try something else.

Goldschmidt, who is using the new bat, was among many pushing back on the revolutionizing-the-game element of the story (Aaron Boone, a third-generation big-leaguer, is also in that group).

“We’re always tinkering [with things],” Goldschmidt said of players, whether it be their stances, swings, bats, gloves or other pieces of equipment. “Guys have tried different bats throughout the year, throughout their career. I really don’t think it’s anything too different.”

To be continued.