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

The New York Yankees' offense was the talk of the baseball world during the first weekend of the 2025 season. Some of the players on their team were using new t

The conversation surrounding the torpedo bat ignited on a sunny Saturday during a Yankees game. Play-by-play announcer Michael Kay discussed how the Yankees’ analytics department advised players on bat designs optimized for pitch contact.

This year the club introduced a new bat featuring what they call a “Torpedo Barrel,” and it’s quite literally breaking the game of baseball. This was most apparent on Saturday night in a 20-9 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in which the Yankees hit an astonishing nine home runs across seven players.

Torpedo bats are designed to be densest in the areas where players are most likely to hit the ball, thereby increasing the frequency of hard-hit balls. Invented by former Yankees assistant Aaron Leanhardt, who holds a doctorate in physics from MIT, the bats were naturally first adopted by Yankees players as early as the 2024 season.

Philadelphia Phillies reliever Matt Strahm proposed such a deal on Monday, saying hitters can "use whatever bat they want," as long as pitchers can go back to using the pine tar those same hitters use to handle those bats.

Pitching and hitting are continuously evolving. For Randy Dobnak, any big-league future might be tied to the continued development of one new, trendy offering.

Judge has a team-leading four of those homers, and a combined nine homers have been launched by the torpedo-bat quintet of Jazz Chisholm Jr. (3), Anthony Volpe (2), Austin Wells (2), Cody Bellinger (1) and Paul Goldschmidt (1).

Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton said he'll continue using a torpedo bat whenever he returns from pain in both elbows, but also declined to say whether he thought using the new model might have cause