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 ...

NEW YORK — The Torpedo Bat Era isn’t even a week old. But in the short time since Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay pointed out the team’s new, misshapen sticks on live TV, Torpedo Bat ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins joined the ongoing discussion this week about the use of torpedo bats that has taken the big leagues by storm after the New York Yankees' strong outing over ...

A bat with a wider barrel sometimes referred to as a torpedo bat sits next to a normal bat during the first inning of MLB baseball game against the Washington Nationals, in Toronto, Monday ...

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred recently addressed the advent and rising popularity of the so-called "torpedo bat," a bowling-pin shaped bat the popularity of which has coincided ...

Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball’s latest fad and see for himself if there really was some wizardry in the wallop off a torpedo bat. Ed Costantini, of Newtown Square, picked up ...

By the playoffs last season, a few players, including Volpe, were hitting with the new bats—which are now called “torpedo bats” (presumably because this sounds cooler than “bowling-pin ...

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HONOLULU (KHON2) — There have many reports recently about a new trend that has started making waves in Major League Baseball (MLB): the torpedo bat. This bat was designed by Aaron Leanhardt is a ...

CINCINNATI — About one week into the MLB season and all anyone wants to talk about is the “Torpedo Bat." The Reds beat the Texas Rangers 14-3 at home during their second homestand of the ...