The 2025 MLB season recently started up, and the New York Yankees have been in plenty of headlines lately regarding their use of torpedo bats or bowling pin bats. The torpedo bat is a style of bat that redistributes weight from the end of the bat to an area where MLB players typically make contact with the ball.
New York tied a major league record with 15 home runs across their first three games of the season, and Jazz Chisolm Jr. hit three of those home runs.
Chisolm took to X on Monday amid all of the bat drama surrounding the Yankees and explained that the use of torpedo bats is completely legal. However, Cleveland Cavaliers star guard Donovan Mitchell, who’s a fan of the New York Mets, jokingly responded by telling Chisolm that the Yankees are “cheating.”
Naa yall are cheating and should be suspended for the season 😂😂😂 https://t.co/w6qjkRRp9b
— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) April 1, 2025
Mitchell has familial ties to the Mets organization. His father has been working for the organization for more than 25 years, and his current position is senior director of DEI and player relations. He’s held that role since December of 2021.
Mitchell is outspoken regarding his Mets fandom and has publicly celebrated moves that the Mets have made in recent years. He took to X after the team agreed to a contract with star pitcher Justin Verlander in 2022.
While the Yankees are off to a blistering 3-0 start to the campaign, the Mets haven’t seen as much success. They’re off to a 2-2 start to the season, with both of those losses coming against the Houston Astros.
The Mets also are amid a long drought without a World Series victory. They last won it all in the year 1986, beating the Boston Red Sox in that year’s World Series.
Mitchell is trying to help the Cavaliers accomplish something later this year that the Mets haven’t done in almost 40 years, and that’s win a title. Cleveland is on track to be the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference in the 2025 NBA Playoffs, as it has a four-game lead on the defending champion Boston Celtics with only seven games remaining on its regular-season schedule.