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‘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 ...
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, 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 ...
Manfred says torpedo bats are ‘good for baseball’ and he hopes to see robot umps in MLB by 2026
Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says he believes all that ...
Torpedo bats have already been ordered by 1 MLB team after Yankees' HR barrage
You knew this was coming as soon as the New York Yankees hit all those home runs over the weekend: the torpedo bat is ...
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, ...
Moneyball for Bats
The madness started, as baseball madness tends to start, with the New York Yankees: At the end of March, during the opening ...
‘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 ...