MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...

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

MLB's torpedo bat has taken the league by storm this season. Which teams and players have used it? Here's a tracker.

Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating ...

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred recently addressed the advent and rising popularity of the so-called "torpedo ...

Former physics professor Aaron Leanhardt is credited with the popularization of the lumber used by several New York Yankees during the team’s 15 home run opening series.

The reconfiguration gives the bat the shape of a torpedo -- or a bowling pin, which doesn't sound nearly as menacing or apropos. Because the Yankees hit bombs with them. Nine of their MLB record ...

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

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not.

Torpedo bats are changing Major League Baseball, but with his head in the sand, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wants us to know: "Nothing to see here!" Torpedo bats change the distribution of the ...

"They're absolutely good for baseball," he said to the New York Times ' Michael S. Schmidt. "I believe that issues like the ...

Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded “torpedo” bats as the future of America ...