"I think it’s an amazing discovery," said Angels outfielder Taylor Ward, one of many players suddenly interested in the new ...

In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...

Pete Alonso turned his extended at-bats into production with a three-RBI performance that included a home run late in the ...

MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...

"It's not the noodle. It's the chef," said Scott Boras, whose agency had Louisville Slugger send client Elly De La Cruz his ...

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

Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game.

The story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron ...

Los Angeles is the first defending World Series champion to win its first eight games of the following season.

The thing is, the torpedo design is not the first change to baseball bats. They didn’t just arrive on the scene in the 19th century looking like they do today — it took years and years ...

2004 — Bobby Abreu of the Philadelphia Phillies hits the first home run in the new Citizens Bank Park. 2009 — For the second ...

We do bat fitting and all that. I just haven't heard about this specifically. When I first heard about [torpedo bats specifically] was when everyone else kind of knew about it. Ryan O'Hearn ...