They wanted to make more contact with pitches and they wanted to strike the ball more often with the bat’s “sweet spot,” or the densest area.“They’re going to point to a location on the ...

“The dream,” Jeff Van Gundy said, laughing, “is that you figure something out and nobody else figures it out until it’s too late. That almost never happens. But I saw it happen.” ...

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees’ bats were the story of the team’s franchise-record nine-home run day against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. Then came the discussion about the actual ...

The New York Yankees' torpedo bats are the talk of Major League Baseball after the team hit a franchise-record nine home runs in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers. Paul Goldschmidt, Cody ...

Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton said he'll continue using a torpedo bat whenever he returns from pain in both elbows, but also declined to say whether he thought using the new model might have ...

(NEXSTAR) — Even if you don’t follow baseball, you may have heard talk of the torpedo bats that seemingly helped propel the New York Yankees to put up 36 runs and hit 15 homers during their ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New York Yankees' power surge over their season-opening series against the Milwaukee Brewers this past weekend generated significant attention for their new "torpedo" bats. ESPN's Jeff Passan ...

And it was not just because of the result, but due to the unique design of some of their bats. The bats in question, known as "Torpedo" barrels, were developed by a former Yankees front-office ...

The torpedo bats used by the New York Yankees in a record-tying home run binge to start the season have created an explosion of curiosity across Major League Baseball. Several Yankees players have ...

Part of this explosion is being attributed to newly designed bats that the Yankees are using. They are being called "torpedo" bats because of the untraditional barrel that rests closer to the ...