The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the talk of the town after the New York Yankees' offense crushed 15 home ...

Torpedo bats have been a hit among Major League Baseball players. The MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel have become the talk of the town after the New York ...

When several of them were seen using an odd-looking new weapon, the baseball world seemed to go bat-crazy trying to learn more about what we now know as the "torpedo bat." The idea behind the new ...

The New York Yankees’ record-setting start to the season raised eyebrows across baseball thanks to an unexpected star: a former physicist no longer employed by the team credited with inventing ...

Torpedo bats change the distribution of the bat's weight, and while they're within MLB rules, is this offensive explosion – is this weird discourse around the game – what MLB really wants?

Many of the Yankees were using what are being called torpedo bats, which are MLB-legal, custom-made bats with weight distributed toward the barrel. Nine of the Yankees' home runs over the opening ...

For a sense of how a torpedo shape might help a batter, consider modern "cupped" bats, their barrels ending with a deep indentation rather than a rounded curve. "That's important weight" to ...

NEW YORK – Right off the bat, the Yankees’ “torpedo’’ bats are legal. “They made sure before they even brought it to us, with MLB, that it was all within regulation,’’ said Cody ...

Is it the bat or the confidence that a bat that looks like a torpedo gives ... the NY Post “I think the benefit for me is I like the weight distribution personally,” Bellinger said.

“It put the weight below his hands and he [ended] up [winning] MVP that year.” Just a few seasons removed from winning MVP using a “puck knob” bat, Paul Goldschmidt is using a torpedo bat no ...