Baseball bat manufacturers had ... affiliated hitters have now tried a torpedo model and said he expects that to increase to 80% by month’s end. “All I can say,” said Bobby Hillerich, a vice president ...

Will there be a significant offensive surge in baseball now that hitters across the league want their hands on the bats? Maybe, but not anytime soon.

Torpedo bats became the unexpected stars of MLB's opening weekend. The torpedo bats differ from traditional wood bats, which gradually get thicker moving away from the handle until plateauing at ...

Business was about to boom, too. Torpedo bats are driving an unprecedented surge in lumber curiosity Victus spent most of the last 14 years trying to help shape the future of baseball. The company ...

He built his impressive résumé by swinging a typical bat, with the ... me a couple of those torpedo bats.” One veteran Philadelphia Phillies hitter said a bat manufacturing company named ...

Again, it's unclear when these bats, reportedly described in-house as a "torpedo" barrel, were implemented, as Smith left the Yankees organization last October. Still, he provided a detailed ...

TORPEDO baseball bats rest in a stand during the manufacturing process at Victus ... pin—and Costantini’s purchase highlighted the surge of interest in baseball’s shiny new toy outside ...

Can anything defuse Major League Baseball's hottest hitting weapon? The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the ...

Baseball bat manufacturers ... tried a torpedo model and said he expects that to increase to 80% by month’s end. “All I can say,” said Bobby Hillerich, a vice president of manufacturing ...

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Torpedo baseball bats rest in a stand during the manufacturing process at ... and Costantini’s purchase highlighted the surge of interest in baseball’s shiny new toy ...