Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball’s latest fad and see for himself if there really was some wizardry in the wallop off a torpedo ... or Marucci bats — has sent production ...

Some of them were hit by players wielding an innovation from a former team employee and a one-time MIT physicist, who reimagined the field-legal bats to be shaped more like a torpedo.

A torpedo bat model is pictured between two other models so patrons can observe the difference while touring the automated lathe section of the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. Christopher ...

Four teams contacted Louisville Slugger about the model, but when the so-called torpedo bat was ... the biggest winner from the surge in interest produced by the bats was baseball itself.

Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images However, that surge was short-lived ... translate into more consistent offensive production. But the torpedo bat was introduced to Volpe specifically to help ...

When several of them were seen using an odd-looking new weapon, the baseball world seemed to go bat-crazy trying to learn more about what we now know as the "torpedo bat." The idea behind the new ...

But in addition to the New York Yankees hitting a franchise-record nine home runs in Saturday’s historic offensive performance, there was considerable attention on the “torpedo” bats some ...

If you’re a baseball fan, then you know it’s impossible to watch a game these days without hearing about torpedo bats, the new bat design giving hitters unforeseen power. But what is it about ...

Louisville Slugger handcrafted De La Cruz's first-ever torpedo bat, which he used for the first time March 31 against the Texas Rangers. The Reds' shortstop went 4-for-5 with two home runs that day.

Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball's latest fad and see for himself if there really was some wizardry in the wallop off a torpedo ... or Marucci bats -- has sent production into ...