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What are the ‘torpedo’ bats in MLB that have everyone talking?
Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating ...
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A Pennsylvania company helped make the torpedo bats taking baseball by storm
The baseball season has just begun and already there's a new phenomenon on everyone's lips: torpedo bats. The bats have a tapered end and the designers moved its weight to the sweet spot, ...
What's a torpedo bat? The history of the Yankees' controversial new baseball bats
The reconfiguration gives the bat the shape of a torpedo -- or a bowling pin, which doesn't sound nearly as menacing or ...
‘Torpedo’ bats ‘absolutely good for baseball,’ says MLB commissioner Robert Manfred
Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded “torpedo” bats as the future of America ...
Torpedo bats, axe bats, and knobs: A history of baseball bats
Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not ...
Baseball: Torpedo bats cleared for use in games in Japan
Nippon Professional Baseball on Friday notified its 12 clubs that players can use so-called torpedo bats in regular-season ...
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred talks torpedo bats, robot umpires in overview of league’s future
In an interview with The New York Times, Manfred also forecasted fans getting more access to game broadcasts after the 2028 ...
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred weighs in on torpedo bats: 'They’re absolutely good for baseball'
One voice who had not weighed in on the situation, however, was MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. He remedied that Sunday, ...
‘We need to see you now’: The untold story of how Elly De La Cruz found his torpedo bat
"It's not the noodle. It's the chef," said Scott Boras, whose agency had Louisville Slugger send client Elly De La Cruz his ...