I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...

The Yankees' new "Torpedo" bats are the talk of baseball. The bats -- which Major League Baseball confirmed are legal \-\- ...

"Baseball is a very traditional game, and if you get up there with a funny-looking bat and you strike out, when you go back to the dugout, what's going to happen? You're going to get razzed by the ...

Does baseball ban the torpedoes, or man the torpedoes? Those funny-looking, elongated, bowling-pin-like bats being used by the Yankees (and now others) might be a simple fad — or they might be ...

In addition to Swanson, second baseman Nico Hoerner has been swinging a torpedo bat in games. Left fielder Ian Happ swung one ...

Whether it’s a thicker handle, bigger barrel.” Mendoza called it “just a funny-looking bat” that just happened to go viral in the season’s first weekend and said it wasn’t a big deal ...

The ends of torpedo bats look almost like the bottoms of bowling ... about torpedo bats,” McCarthy said. “It’s pretty funny.” Of course, perhaps not everyone will find them amusing.

Robert Van Scoyoc, hitting coach, Los Angeles Dodgers: I've heard about bat fitting. We do bat fitting and all that. I just ...

Rangers infielder Josh Smith isn’t using the bat, but he said after the game that he picked up Pederson’s just to see how it felt. “Actually, it looks funny,” Smith said. “I grabbed it.

Several New York players are using torpedo-style bats, which contain more wood in the barrel and have an irregular shape. They may look funny, but they pack quite a punch, as the Yankees proved by ...