With hitting arguably harder than ever, teams are looking at data, technology drills and, yes, new bat shapes to get an edge.

MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...

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

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 ...

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From Moneyball to analytics to torpedo bats, MLB teams are desperate for an edge and will look for one in every nook and ...

Long before his oddly shaped bat became the talk of baseball, Aaron Leanhardt played in the Boston Metro Baseball League. He ...

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Let's dig in. Read: An MIT-educated professor, the Yankees and the bat that could be changing baseball The idea of the torpedo bat is to take a size format -- say, 34 inches and 32 ounces -- and ...

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.