Aaron Leanhardt, the club’s new major league analyst, is what the Yankees hope is the solution to a problem that became clear by the end of last season when Judge said they needed to do a better job of funneling analytical data to players in the right format.
Time will tell whether Leanhardt can make his impact felt in a way that benefits the Yankees in the win column as they come off a brutal 82-80 season. But he has made a strong early impression on key organizational figures.
“I’m excited about him,” Judge told The Post this week. “He’s in a good role, being that analyst that’s the barrier between us and the analytics. What I’ve seen so far, he does a good job funneling the information down. I think the guys are going to love him.”
Before Hal Steinbrenner revealed last week that the Yankees had promoted Leanhardt — better known in the clubhouse as “Lenny,” who has been with the organization since 2018 — into his new role, a Google search would have mostly shown his work outside of baseball.
There was the NASA-funded research study at MIT in which scientists, including Leanhardt (then a grad student on the way to a Ph.D), cooled a sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded.
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