Developed by a physicist, these bats have their widest part, called the barrel, closer to the player's hands to offer a ...

Mastermind of torpedo batThe mastermind behind the design is Aaron Leanheardt, a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist turned coach for the Miami Marlins. Leanheardt, who introduced ...

Each batter using the new product has a custom torpedo bat; where the greater mass of wood is placed depends on an analysis of where on the bat the batter hits the ball most often.

Torpedo bats are just the beginning when it comes to the changes we'll see coming to bats in Major League Baseball. Keenan ...

Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for six-and-a-half years, had a simple question he was trying to answer when ...

Now back to the torpedo bat. It's designed so that the wider part of the bat IS the sweet spot. Since it’s wider, it's easier to hit the ball. Since that part is the sweet spot, it gives the ball a ...

After a stellar Yankees win on Saturday, torpedo bats are in the spotlight. Is there science behind these baseball bats?

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look ...

Torpedo bats are just the latest entrant on this ongoing continuum. They are the product of a collaboration between data science, bat manufacturers and each individual player. Just as bats have ...

Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating ...

Torpedo bats] If you thought "torpedo bat" was fun ... to swinging an axe nearly half-a-century before in his book, The Science of Hitting. "Try it for yourself. Get a bat and swing it against ...

When videos of Yankees hitters using funky-looking bats went viral last week, Orioles pitchers had some of the same reactions ...