Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...

MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...

In the early days of this year’s season, 'torpedo' bats have become all the rage for big-league hitters. And now, they are ...

Today’s guest columnists are professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. Torpedo bats are having their moment. With their dramatically tapered barrels and enlarged sweet spots, these odd-looking clubs ...

The opening weekend of the 2025 MLB season was taken over by a surprise star -- torpedo bats. The bowling pin-shaped bats became the talk of the sport after the Yankees' home run onslaught on the ...

MLB's torpedo bat has taken the league by storm this season. Which teams and players have used it? Here's a tracker.

In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...

The use of elongated bats in Major League Baseball, while potentially advantageous for hitters, raises questions about ...

Torpedo bats are changing Major League Baseball, but with his head in the sand, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wants us to know: "Nothing to see here!" Torpedo bats change the distribution of the ...

A week has passed since torpedo bats burst onto the scene as the talk of the 2025 MLB season, and the hitting innovation is still buzzing through the industry. We asked our MLB reporters to talk ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

The newest innovation in baseball, the bat has a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player ...