The New York Yankees made headlines with their newly engineered torpedo bats, developed by MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt.

The game sent shockwaves across Major League Baseball. Other MLB teams have since placed an influx of orders with Hillerich & Bradsby, the Louisville-based company that makes Louisville Slugger bats ...

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MIAMI — The only known member of the Mets to use the torpedo bat this season is Francisco Lindor. That fact alone should tell ...

The second game of the new season saw the New York Yankees put up a historic offensive performance. The Yankees blew out the ...

Baseball is already seeing a new phenomenon this year -- torpedo bats. The tapered bats that focus weight to the sweet spot, ...

A number of Yankees are using a newly created bat with a barrel that is thicker and wider than a standard baseball bat, designed by a former physics professor and MIT graduate. In the second game ...

The creation of the bowling pin bat (also known as the torpedo bat) optimizes the most important tool in baseball by redistributing weight from the end of the bat toward the area 6 to 7 inches ...

The biggest story during Major League Baseball's opening weekend by far (along with New York Mets slugger Juan Soto's debut with his new team) was the prevalence of what are called "torpedo bats".

FOR THEIR FAMILIES. WELL, LOUISVILLE SLUGGERS TORPEDO BAT IS NOT NEW, BUT IT IS DRAWING ATTENTION. JUST DAYS INTO THE NEW BASEBALL SEASON, HILLERICH AND BRADSBY WORKED WITH PLAYERS ON FOUR MAJOR ...

“Really,” he said. “It’s just about making the bat as heavy and as fat as possible in the area where you’re trying to do damage on the baseball.” A Major League Baseball spokesman told ...