Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...

I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...

The torpedo bats are safely within MLB rules, which dictate only that bats must be “solid wood, round, shorter than 42 inches ...

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

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

Torpedo bats in MLB are here to stay — and could spark further exploration for a technological edge in baseball and beyond.

Several New York Yankees' players used a "torpedo bat" that helped set an MLB record for home runs. What is a torpedo bat? Is ...

For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it’s more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate.

Torpedo bats are all the rage around Major League Baseball this week, but are they here to stay? The Yankees’ power display over the weekend \-\- New York hit 15 home runs in a three-game home sweep o ...

Using torpedo bats, both batters achieved higher exit velocity (the speed of the ball travelling off the bat—the ultimate metric of performance, says Nathan) in the region where they prefer to ...

It didn’t take long for Elly De La Cruz to find his way with the much-talked-about “torpedo” bat. The Cincinnati Reds star ...

But based on our early understanding of the intentions behind the design and the physics of torpedo bats, there are certain numbers worth monitoring as the sample of performance from players ...