On Monday, bat manufacturer Louisville Slugger posted a sneak peek of the pink torpedo bat Cincinnati Reds ' star Elly De La ...

"It's not the noodle. It's the chef," said Scott Boras, whose agency had Louisville Slugger send client Elly De La Cruz his ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Major League Baseball’s “Torpedo” bat trend is spreading. Cincinnati Red Elly De ... high seven runs batted in, as the Reds throttled the Texas Rangers 14-3 on ...

The birth of the torpedo bat has started an already heated conversation ... the rest of the league is getting in on the fun, including Cincinnati Reds star Elly De La Cruz. On Monday night ...

If a torpedo bat revolution is underway in MLB, the New York Yankees might be at the forefront of it, but the Cincinnati Reds are close behind. The fallout from what happened at Yankee Stadium is ...

"It's new, it's unique," said Louisville Slugger bat maker Brian Hillerich. "No one's seen anything like it before." The torpedo bats ... we took two models up (to Cincinnati) just to show their ...

Those players include Cincinnati Reds star, Elly De La Cruz. The first night De La Cruz used a torpedo bat, he blew up Cincinnati social media. Cincinnati’s young superstar belted two home runs ...

But after the Yankees' barrage of home runs and Cincinnati Reds star Elly De La Cruz using the bat for the first time and having seven RBIs the very next day, all the chatter was about torpedo bats.

The “torpedo bat” may be more than a quirky ... as did home run totals. Now, players like Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz are picking up the design and seeing results.

Louisville Slugger handcrafted De La Cruz's first-ever torpedo bat, which he used for the first time March 31 against the Texas Rangers. The Reds' shortstop went 4-for-5 with two home runs that day.

By now everyone who follows the Cincinnati Reds knows what the team’s dynamic ... causing the barrel to taper from there to the end. Whether the torpedo-bat craze sticks with lasting impact ...