The Yankees just clobbered a MLB record 15 home runs in their first three games thanks in part to a new style of bat developed by a 48-year-old physicist.

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

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the biggest story of the first week of the 2025 MLB season is “torpedo bats,” the oddly shaped lumber that burst onto the scene thanks to the ...

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season. After some ...

Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the ...

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

Several New York Yankees' players used a "torpedo bat" that helped set an MLB record for home runs. What is a torpedo bat? Is ...

The new torpedo bat is causing a buzz in major league baseball after a high-scoring game between the New York Yankees and ...

Torpedo bats in MLB are here to stay — and could spark further exploration for a technological edge in baseball and beyond.

In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...

Next-generation bats could mean a leveling of the balance of power between pitchers and hitters. The arms have been dominating for a decade. Between increased velocity and spin rates, Spider Tack (now ...

The torpedo bat is a custom-shaped baseball bat with ... Leanhardt, a former physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the idea developed in 2022 while he was working with ...