Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game.

Despite losing their first game of the MLB season, the New York Yankees continued their historic start to the year as they broke multiple records through their prolific home run hitting.

Players are intrigued. Reds star Elly De La Cruz tried it Monday and crushed the ball. One bat-maker contends Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton’s seven-HR barrage in last year’s playoffs was with a torpedo. The early version of the backstory is amazing: An MIT physicist-turned-baseball coach, Aaron Leanhardt, made an observation:

Baseball equipment manufacturers and sellers in North Jersey say torpedo bats are nothing new. But demand is surging since the Yankees' recent barrage

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 Monday with various front-office personnel,

Jim Levasseur manufactures a torpedo baseball bat at Victus Sports in King of Prussia, Pa., Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Tom Fazzini selects wood to be manufactured into a torpedo baseball bat at Victus Sports in King of Prussia,

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