Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating ...

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 ...

MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...

The torpedo bats have the barrel of the bat in a different location. Instead of being at the end of the bat, the barrel is closer to the handle, which gives the bat a bowling pin shape.

The torpedo bat’s shape might change the sweet spot, Smith says, but if such bats end up lighter than traditional ones, the bat-ball collision might actually transfer less energy and lead to ...

Baseball fans everywhere are talking about torpedo bats, the oddly-shaped bats giving hitters newfound strength. We visited one of the top bat manufacturers in the country to learn just how these bats ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred touched on hot topics like robot umpires, torpedo bats and possible expansion in an interview published by The New York Times on Sunday. Manfred spoke positively about ...

Torpedo bats have been a hit among Major League Baseball players. The MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel have become the talk of the town after the New York ...

The extraordinary torpedo bats that have taken MLB by storm may be headed toward being completely ordinary. “I think you’re going to see it across all 30 teams,”former MLB pitcher and co ...

But in addition to the New York Yankees hitting a franchise-record nine home runs in Saturday’s historic offensive performance, there was considerable attention on the “torpedo” bats some ...

Apparently not. MIT-trained physicist Aaron Leanhardt, whom the Yankees hired for their coaching staff in 2022, reportedly created the torpedo bats. Leanhardt jumped to the Miami Marlins in the ...

Torpedo bats are a hot topic for Major League Baseball and sportsbooks. The company making the bats for MLB players and others is owned by a public company. Markets are messy—but the right ...