The MIT Scientist Behind the ‘Torpedo Bats’ That Are Blowing Up Baseball© Pamela Smith/Associated Press Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit three home runs in his first three games this season.© Pamela ...

The bat was created because players "wanted to make more contact with pitches and they wanted to strike the ball more often," Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist turned baseball coach who invented ...

Where Gagne was once a menace to hitters, collecting 161 of his 187 career saves with the Dodgers from 1999 to 2006 and winning the National League Cy Young Award in 2003, the retired 49-year-old ...

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 ...

But in a press scrum interview this week, the 48-year-old MIT grad deflected any credit for homers that have been hit with torpedo bats. "At the end of the day it's about the batter, not the bat ...

The bat shall be a smooth, round stick not more than 2.61 inches in diameter at the thickest part and not more than 42 inches in length. The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.

Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded “torpedo” bats as the future of America’s pastime, calling them “absolutely good for baseball” in a ...

MLB’s rules regarding bats are pretty straightforward. “The bat shall be a smooth, round stick not more than 2.61 inches in diameter at the thickest part and not more than 42 inches in length.