Just a few weeks ago, the New York Yankees ' "torpedo bats" were “cheating” and “ruining the game ." Their power explosion on ...

Baseball fans everywhere are talking about torpedo bats, the oddly-shaped bats giving hitters newfound strength. We visited ...

The Yankees debuted a new style of baseball bat on March 28th, which added more wood to the barrel of the bat to increase the maximize players’ ability to hit the ball hard. Yankees players claimed ...

The Baltimore Orioles were “ahead of the curve” on the unique design, two sources with direct knowledge told The Baltimore ...

Liam Koch, Contributing Writer The New York Yankees have been causing a storm in baseball after their new bats led them to a ...

Paul LaMantia and Ryan LaPensee have learned a valuable lesson from early in the 2025 Major League Baseball season.

As other sports have adapted to technology advancement, popular opinion and culture shifts, baseball has been a stalwart in tradition – one of which is the bats hitters use. But in 2025, they ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WKRC) - A new trend is sweeping Major League Baseball as players embrace the innovative torpedo bats produced by Louisville Slugger. These bats, which resemble torpedoes ...

Torpedo bats are different from standard bats in that the density has been redistributed, with a narrower end and more wood lower down the barrel. The ends of torpedo bats look almost like the ...

But that premise may be suspect. Despite their Moneyball makeover, torpedo bats remain, for now, a blunt instrument, largely superstition with a patina of data. Though it seems like common sense ...

He has done plenty of consulting for the league and its teams. He’d heard of torpedo bats, but because they weren’t widely used he hadn’t really studied them. Once he did, “My first ...

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 ...