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Baseball fans everywhere are talking about torpedo bats, the oddly-shaped bats giving hitters newfound strength. We visited one of the top bat manufacturers in the country to learn just how these bats ...
The Baltimore Orioles were “ahead of the curve” on the unique design, two sources with direct knowledge told The Baltimore ...
MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...
The Mariners' Cal Raleigh homered in three straight games with the new torpedo bat. Purists balk, but all legal avenues for adding offense should be explored.
The torpedo bat has been taking MLB by storm to open the 2025 season. Let's hear from the inventor and break down the new phenomenon.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
American sport is buzzing over a new style of bat being used in Major League Baseball. Pitchers throwing sliders and sinkers ...
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 ...
Young recalled. In Leanhardt’s hand was an early prototype of the so-called “torpedo” bat. Originally conceived by Leanhardt while working in the Yankees’ front office, the bowling-pin ...
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 ...