Authenticators will place hologram stickers on bottles of dirt, a lucrative enterprise for MLB. Topps, whose main cutting facilities are in Texas and Maryland, has embedded confetti, cornstalks from ...

The Yankees' attempt to return will come in a wide-open American League. PECOTA, Baseball America's widely cited projection system, predicts the Yankees will finish with 85 wins, enough for a ...

Following an offensive explosion — in which the team hit 15 home runs and scored 36 runs in just three games — questions emerged about the unusual bats used by some of the team's hitters.

Bats get a bad rap, but once you look past the vampire lore and spooky Halloween vibes, they’re actually kind of adorable.

During spring training, someone in the organization had mentioned to Kay that the team's analytics department had counseled players on where pitches tended to strike their bats, and with ...

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees’ bats were the story of the team’s franchise-record nine-home run day against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. Then came the discussion about the actual ...

The New York Yankees and their torpedo bats are causing a stir across baseball. In case you missed it, on Saturday, the Yankees set a franchise record for home runs (nine dingers!) against the ...

Here in auto-saturated Los Angeles, the bumper sticker has always been a healthy form of self-expression. But in recent years, they’ve become far weirder than your average tourist-trap souvenir ...

Giancarlo Stanton embraced the torpedo bats long before they became the talk of MLB. The Yankees slugger used the bowling-pin-shaped bats last season, including during a torrid playoff run in ...

The nuance? The "torpedo" bat, used widely by Yankees hitters to open the year. Torpedo bats actually aren't completely brand-new. They haven't been widely utilized across MLB since their initial ...

(NEXSTAR) — Even if you don’t follow baseball, you may have heard talk of the torpedo bats that seemingly helped propel the New York Yankees to put up 36 runs and hit 15 homers during their ...

“The dream,” Jeff Van Gundy said, laughing, “is that you figure something out and nobody else figures it out until it’s too late. That almost never happens. But I saw it happen.” ...