NEW YORK — Milwaukee Brewers starter Nestor Cortes Jr. said the New York Yankees were not fully bought into using the torpedo bats last season. He believed Giancarlo Stanton and former catcher Jose Trevino were the only two hitters who experimented with them at various points. But he doesn’t believe his disastrous outing on Saturday, when he allowed three home runs in three pitches to begin the game, had anything to do with the kinds of bats he was trying to miss.

“I think those were gonna go out regardless if they had a (bowling) pin bat or a regular bat,” Cortes said after Sunday’s game. “I got no idea what these bats do.”

Cortes said he doesn’t see an issue with several of the Yankees, including Jazz Chisholm Jr., Anthony Volpe, Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt and Austin Wells, using the torpedo bats because they’re legal. That was the general sentiment in the Brewers’ clubhouse after their pitching staff allowed 36 runs and 15 home runs in the three-game series.

Freddy Peralta, who started for the Brewers on Opening Day, said he wants his teammates to start using the bats if the club thinks it can be beneficial for their hitters. Peralta allowed two home runs Thursday, a leadoff shot off the bat of Wells and an opposite-field homer from Volpe.

Brewers star Christian Yelich was not aware of the torpedo bats before the series started. He’s looking forward to learning more and possibly experimenting with them to see if he can notice any difference.

“If you could use technology to make yourself perform better as long as it’s within the rules, why not?” Yelich said. “I think as players, especially if you want to keep playing at a high level in this league, you should always be open to making changes, making adjustments and trying to improve any way you can.

“It’s going to gain more traction with that kind of offensive performance that they put on in this series. I don’t think the bats had any factor in the outcomes of the game. I just think we needed to play a lot better if we wanted to win. We didn’t do that. If it is a technological advancement on the hitting side, it would be cool because we’ve kind of been playing catch-up with the pitching side. I am open to trying it.”

Not every Brewers player had a positive outlook on the technological advancements that the Yankees put to use. Closer Trevor Megill told the New York Post that he thinks it’s terrible that the Yankees are using the torpedo bats, saying, “I feel like it’s something used in slow-pitch softball. It’s genius: Put the mass all in one spot. It might be bush (league). It might not be. But it’s the Yankees, so they’ll let it slide.” When approached for comment after Sunday’s game, McGill claimed he was misquoted, but he did not want to clarify what might have been incorrectly reported.

His manager, Pat Murphy, said he didn’t know why any of his pitchers would be peeved if the league determined that the bats were legal.

“It’s not like some magical wood or anything else,” Murphy said. “It’s just built with the weight in a different spot. It’s proving to be effective for the Yankees this weekend. They’re really good hitters, and if pitchers want to get annoyed, then the hitters win. Just make good pitches. When you throw the ball down the middle, you’re going to get it whacked. That’s what happens.”

Murphy believed his pitching staff struggled immensely this weekend because of how decimated they are with injuries; seven of the club’s top 13 pitchers are out, and because of that, the Brewers found themselves in “goofy situations” over the three-game series.

“The Yankees are good, and they kicked our ass,” Murphy said.

Murphy sarcastically suggested that his players will all switch to torpedo bats after the historic beatdown they were given this weekend.

“Maybe they will now that they saw the Yankees,” Murphy said. “Maybe that’s the secret to hitting. My old ass will tell you this, for sure, it ain’t the wand; it’s the magician. If the bats help, I’m sure every guy in the league will be using them within a week.”

(Top photo of Jazz Chisholm Jr. hitting a two-run homer in the third inning Sunday: Mike Stobe / Getty Images)