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 reconfiguration gives the bat the shape of a torpedo -- or a bowling pin, which doesn't sound nearly as menacing or apropos. Because the Yankees hit bombs with them. Nine of their MLB record ...

The biggest storyline of the young 2025 MLB season has been the use of torpedo bats. It's not an inflated Wiffle ball bat or a skewed image, rather it's a bat where the barrel is located closer to ...

Torpedo bats are the explosive new trend in baseball after the New York Yankees set a franchise record Saturday, hitting nine home runs — the first four of which were back to back to back to ...

This disparity was anticipated, yes, but the degree to which the Senior Circuit dwarfs the Junior Circuit in almost every way ...

The shape resembles a bowling pin. And while torpedo bats look different, they are legal under MLB rules. MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats.

Think of home runs in baseball, and the fan’s mind races to the mammoth distances a ball can fly when slugged right on the nose, or a history-making ... The torpedo bat took the league by ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. "They're absolutely good for baseball," Manfred ...

Nine of their MLB record-tying 15 home runs hit in their first three games were used by five players using torpedo bats, including six of a franchise-record nine homers in Saturday's 20-9 rout ...

which would be the worst mark in MLB history. They are 15½ games behind the Dodgers after one month. MLB torpedo bats: What you need to know Torpedo-shaped bats have become MLB's next big thing.