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Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the ...
The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.
New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design of a piece of equipment that’s been part of the game from the start: the baseball ...
Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...
The torpedo bats do not violate MLB’s rules, which state under 3.02: “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 ...
In that spirit, let's take a moment to consider the turning-point moments in baseball bat history -- an abridged guide to how we got from sticks to torpedoes. The torpedo is the talk of 2025 ...
The reconfiguration gives the bat the shape of a torpedo -- or a bowling pin, which doesn't sound nearly as menacing or apropos. Because the Yankees hit bombs with them. Nine of their MLB record ...