A new bat has taken over MLB, and it's changing the game in ways no one expected. Known as the "torpedo bat," this innovative ...

Nico Hoerner, 2B, Chicago Cubs: I've used it since mid-spring training. Every AB I've taken this year has been with some version of the reverse taper barrel (which is what the Cubs call the torpedo ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins joined the ongoing discussion this week about the use of torpedo bats that has ... He pitched for the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox and ...

Various MLB players, including New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La ...

Louisville Slugger Torpedo bats being painted. (Louisville Slugger) And sales of souvenir bats quadrupled in 2016 when the Chicago Cubs broke a 107-year-old World Series drought, Hillerich said.

“It was the most talked about thing about bats that we ever experienced,” Victus co-founder Jared Smith said. Chicago Cubs’ Dansby Swanson and Nico Hoerner are using torpedo bats — and see ...

Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin, the torpedo bat has become baseball’s latest ...

The baseball world has been taken over by discussion of the torpedo bats trend, but a Chicago Cubs pitcher is getting in on the new pitch that is more quietly taking over. Cubs veteran Jameson Taillon ...