Yes, the Yankees have a literal genius MIT Physicist, Lenny (who is the man), on payroll. He invented the “Torpedo” barrel. It brings more wood - and mass - to where you most often make contact as a ...

What differentiates a torpedo bat from a standard bat is the shape. A torpedo bat features a thicker sweet spot — or barrel — before thinning out near the top of the bat. The shape resembles a ...

The company’s founders just never imagined that shape would resemble a bowling pin. “It was the most talked about thing about bats that we ever experienced,” Victus co-founder Jared Smith said.

Aaron Judge, using a bat with a conventional shape, hit a 468-foot shot that made the Yankees the first team to homer on each of a game's first three pitches since MLB's records began in 1988.

Several Yankees players have been employing the torpedo-shaped bats to start the season, and their immediate success has other players around the league intrigued about the newly designed lumber.

Torpedo bats] If you thought "torpedo bat" was fun to say, or that a bat shaped like a bowling pin was a little silly to look at, then you need to be introduced to the banana bat. Patented in 1890 ...

While the points of emphasis in the game have changed, the choice of bat has always depended on the size of the hitter, the shape of his swing and the kind of batsman he wants to be. During the ...

"And all torpedo bats aren’t shaped the same." Essentially, when teams are investing so much into the science and math of hitting and pitching, it was only a matter of time before bat shapes ...

They wanted to make more contact with pitches and they wanted to strike the ball more often with the bat’s “sweet spot,” or the densest area. “They’re going to point to a location on the ...

But inside the Blue Jays clubhouse, it was nothing new. Davis Schneider adopted a similar bat shape for 2025 and more Toronto hitters may soon join him, especially after Saturday’s showcase in ...