The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.

Torpedo bats in MLB are here to stay — and could spark further exploration for a technological edge in baseball and beyond.

It’s been just two weeks since Opening Day, but it only took one series for a defining subplot of the 2025 season to emerge: torpedo bats. The controversial new equipment immediately stole ...

and in his hands was a torpedo bat designed for Chicago Cubs infielder Nico Hoerner. Hillerich, the vice president of ...

they sent it to Victus to begin manufacturing Volpe's personalized torpedo bat. How does it work? Victus moved the wood from the part of the bat that Volpe doesn't use to the area where he most ...

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

One of the biggest brands in Major League Baseball bat manufacturing is riding the wave of the sport's hot and controversial new trend -- the torpedo bat. After the New York Yankees belted 15 home ...

though he admits that "torpedo sounds kind of cooler." Figuring out the right balance took time. Bowling pin bats take precision to produce. Every fraction of an ounce in bat manufacturing matters.

And while torpedo bats might just now be making their first public splash, Gagné’s company has been manufacturing them ever since Leanhardt first approached Young last spring. “It looks a ...

So, what is a torpedo bat? A typical wooden baseball bat only gets wider from the handle to the barrel, while a torpedo bat gets wider toward the center of the barrel then tapers. The end shape ...

are swinging a so-called torpedo bat, which uses a manufacturing tweak to shift some of a traditional bat’s mass a few inches in toward the batter. Instead of the bats we’re used to seeing ...

“All I can say,” said Bobby Hillerich, a vice president of manufacturing and operations ... Milwaukee Brewers in New York on Friday. “Torpedo bats” officially entered the sports lexicon ...