This year the club introduced a new bat featuring what they call a “Torpedo Barrel,” and it’s quite literally breaking the game of baseball. This was most apparent on Saturday night in a 20-9 win over ...

Today’s guest columnists are professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. Torpedo bats are having their moment. With their dramatically tapered barrels and enlarged sweet spots, these odd-looking clubs ...

where the batter grips the bat, to the barrel—the bat’s thickest section. To anyone who doesn’t follow baseball closely, the torpedo bat doesn’t look drastically different from the typical ...

Major League Baseball's bat regulations are relatively permissive. Currently, the rules allow for a maximum barrel diameter ...

The reaction across MLB to the design of the New York Yankees' new 'torpedo' bats after the Bronx Bombers belted 13 home runs in two games was swift.

A traditional baseball bat has a skinny handle that flares into ... The new torpedo bat moves the mass down toward the player’s grip, with a thicker barrel in the middle of the bat and a tapered ...

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

Everyone in and around baseball seems to have an opinion on the "torpedo" bats now being used by several New York Yankees players and other stars around ...

If there's one phrase to sum up the first week of the 2025 MLB season it's "torpedo bats," the slightly different shaped pieces of wood that have taken the league by storm. To the surprise of no ...

Matt Strahm said in a recent X post that as long as torpedo bats are around, pitchers should be able to use "whatever hitters have in the on-deck circle." ...

Torpedo bats have taken the baseball world by storm — and some ... I’m just a pitcher but I’m assuming better grip helps ya swing harder…” “Not sticky cause some of that stuff was ...