Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...

"To make it into a wood bat and maximize the ideal hitting area, they had to come up with this torpedo shape and reduce the ...

Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for six-and-a-half years, had a simple question he was trying to answer when ...

Opinions are mixed on whether the torpedo bats are the reason for the Yankees' early season success. The five Yankees players who used torpedo bats against the Milwaukee Brewers performed ...

Physically, you can do all the stuff and you can practice and be great at practice, but mentality, I think is the base of ...

The torpedo model - a striking design in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a ...

Major League Baseball's bat regulations are relatively permissive. Currently, the rules allow for a maximum barrel diameter of 2.61 inches, a maximum length of 42 inches and a smooth and round shape.

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

In the early days of this year’s season, 'torpedo' bats have become all the rage for big-league hitters. And now, they are ...

Some bats with a little different shapes to them. Maybe not quite to this extent. Hey, they're legal. A lot of success happened in New York, so a lot of guys will be trying it out. And they probably ...

It is possible three games are going to be indicative of the hitters now having a tool that will need to be banned. Or it is possible it was three games against a beat-up Brewers team.

At the Orioles front office’s suggestion, Adley Rutschman is using a modified version of the “torpedo” bat that the Yankees are using.