What is the quick review?
I was pursuing little league baseball bat videos on YouTube on a Friday night because when you have 7 children, this is what you do, and I came across a video for a bat called the Easton MAKO Torq. It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on, and then it hit me: My goodness, the freaking handle was rotating around the bat on purpose. See for yourself:
What models and sizes are available?
2024 Update: In short, the bat is the same as the highly rated Easton Mako, but it uses a spinning bottom hand to improve the bat's swing supposedly. The idea was novel, but the TORQ has been more of a running joke as a gimmick in the long run. Easton dropped the TORQ from their production lines a couple of years later (when they finally got rid of inventory), and it was otherwise popular to buy the bat, tape down the spinning handle, and use it like a normal bat. Other than this paragraph, we've kept this page largely in tact for posterities sake.
How is it built?
This bat, known well now as the Easton Mako Torq (not Torque) is real and is for sale. It comes in a handful of different sizes: BBCOR (BB15MKT) 31 to 34 inches; 2 1/4 Youth Barrel drop 10 (YB15MKT); Senior League 2 5/8 drop 5 and drop 8 (SL15MKT5T, SL15MKT8T).
But before you drop a couple years worth of lawn mowing money on a baseball bat, you should probably ask a more obvious question: Why would a bat ever need to have a spinning handle?
