Will there be a significant offensive surge in baseball now that hitters across the league want their hands on the bats? Maybe, but not anytime soon.

The story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt.

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-tying 15 home runs hit in their first three games were used ...

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Anthony Volpe were among the many players using so-called "torpedo" bats when they joined the home-run party and helped propel the Yanks to their historic home run barrage. The Bronx Bombers also tied an MLB record after slamming ...

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

On Tuesday, they were shut out for the first time this year, falling 5–0 to the Tigers at Comerica Park. Detroit left-hander Tarik Skubal was dominant, retiring 16 straight Yankees at one point and allowing just four hits over six shutout innings. He struck out six and didn’t walk a batter.

"They're absolutely good for baseball," he said to the New York Times ' Michael S. Schmidt. "I believe that issues like the torpedo bat and the debate around it demonstrate the fact that baseball still occupies a unique place in our culture, because people get into a complete frenzy over something that’s really nothing at the end of the day.