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TORONTO – Weird but interesting. That’s Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider’s take on torpedo bats.The New York Yankees turned heads during their season-opening homestand, tying a major-league record with 15 home runs in their first three games of a season and tying a club mark with 13 home runs in two games (nine Saturday and four Sunday).Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe and Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered using the torpedo bats in New York’s 20-9 rout Saturday of the Milwaukee Brewers.The bat moves wood lower down the barrel after the label. The idea is to to bring more mass to a bat’s sweet spot.“It looks weird and I think anything that is new and looks weird is story-worthy,” Schneider said prior to Monday’s game against the visiting Washington Nationals. “So whether or not it’s a competitive advantage, I don’t really know.”Story continues below advertisementBlue Jays outfielder Davis Schneider has two of the torpedo bats and used one in one at-bat in th...