In his playing days, Eric Gagne’s objective was simple. “My job was to break bats,” the former Dodgers closer joked with a laugh. Which makes his current occupation, as chief executive of Quebec-based ...

The New York Yankees smashed 15 home runs in their first three games of the 2025 Major League Baseball season last week, largely thanks to a brand new tool: torpedo bats. These revolutionary new bats, ...

Pitching is dialed in right now around baseball. Here’s some evidence: One pitcher throws a unique changeup in August 2024, and by the next spring training, nearly two dozen pitchers are using the ...

NEW YORK — The Torpedo Bat Era isn’t even a week old. But in the short time since Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay pointed out the team’s new, misshapen sticks on live TV, Torpedo Bat Mania has ...

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ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Kim and David Harrell, franchise owners of D-BAT Alexandria, joined Sportsnite to talk about the new ...

A FaceTime call came in last Monday morning to Freddie Vargas, CEO of Tater Baseball. Marte, who has used Tater bats since 2018, was one of many MLB players who inquired about the bat -- now known as ...

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 ...

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 with baseball’s latest ...

The New York Yankees have cracked the code when it comes to hitting dingers, and it’s raising massive questions about whether they’re simply leveraging existing rules, or bending them entirely too ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. "They're absolutely good for baseball," Manfred said ...

For all the Shohei Ohtani worship or Paul Skenes hype, nothing in baseball breaks through to the broader public like the possibility of a cheating scandal. Think steroids, Pete Rose betting on his own ...