Perhaps most notably, it was revealed that Giancarlo Stanton was swinging a version of a torpedo bat for large portions of ...

The torpedo bats are safely within MLB rules, which dictate only that bats must be “solid wood, round, shorter than 42 inches ...

I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...

Using torpedo bats, both batters achieved higher exit velocity (the speed of the ball travelling off the bat—the ultimate metric of performance ... is highest on impact. Some define the sweet ...

The impact was immediate and dramatic ... continually push the boundaries of player performance. As the season unfolds, the torpedo bats may reshape expectations for offensive statistics across ...

Amid bat design mania, baseball continues its trend of making hitting harder and harder with power breaking pitches replacing curveballs.

Torpedo bats have been the talk of baseball season so far after a record-setting home-run performance by the New York Yankees during Major League Baseball’s opening weekend and, closer to home ...

torpedo bats. These revolutionary new bats, which alter the design of the bat's wooden barrel, have other teams around the league taking notice and wondering if this could have a lasting impact on ...

Whether it was the spitball in the early 20th century, performance-enhancing ... Bowman doesn’t expect the torpedo bats to make a massive impact on the game. It can certainly help some hitters ...

It makes sense, then, that the talk around Major League Baseball after Opening Weekend concerned not a player or a team, a play or a result, but a piece of lumber: the torpedo bat. After speaking on ...

As for the torpedo bats, the Yankees weren’t sure if they will spread like wildfire across the league following the team’s nine-homer performance on Saturday. After all, this is a sport full ...