The New York Yankees’ 20-9 win against the Milwaukee Brewers last Saturday has put the spotlight on the odd, bowling-pin-shaped “torpedo bat” that many of the team’s players were swinging. The bat’s ...
You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design of a ...
Baton Rouge, LA – As other sports have adapted to technology advancement, popular opinion and culture shifts, baseball has been a stalwart in tradition – one of which is the bats hitters use. But in ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Zach Dezenzo was rehabbing an injury at the Houston Astros’ minor-league facility in Florida last season when he first beheld a bat that he still thinks “looks weird.” Its barrel bulged ...
Major League Baseball has been taken over by the introduction of a new piece of hitting technology that's been dubbed the "torpedo bat." This bat sees the hardest and densest part of the bat moved ...
If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the “torpedo bat” that is the talk of MLB’s new season. After some ...
The madness started, as baseball madness tends to start, with the New York Yankees: At the end of March, during the opening weekend of the new season, the team’s first three batters hit home runs on ...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) — A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports this week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus he just had to take some ...
On Monday, March 31, at the Philadelphia Phillies' home opener at Citizens Bank Park, with two outs in the bottom of the first inning, with the count at one ball and one strike, Phillies slugger Bryce ...
The curiosity of it all is that for as much the baseball bat itself has changed, the rules presiding over those changes have changed very little. Here are the bat regulations laid out during a ...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports this week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus he just had to take some cuts ...