New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design of a piece of equipment that’s been part of the game from the start ...

And more teams are now looking to add torpedo bats to their own arsenal. The torpedo bat is a custom-shaped baseball bat with a modified barrel that’s tailored to maximize the contact tendencies ...

The reconfiguration gives the bat the shape of a torpedo or, as some have pointed out, a bowling pin. Several baseball bat manufacturers, such as Victus, listed torpedo-style bats for sale on ...

A torpedo bat resembles something of an elongated bowling pin. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The talk of baseball: Louisville Slugger shows how the torpedo bat came to ...

What his colleagues didn’t realize was that in the rare moments when Leanhardt wasn’t toiling away at the lab, he was moonlighting as a speedy shortstop in a local amateur baseball league.

He might think some of that could point to the bat, but also there’s a lot to go into it that he’s the biggest, strongest guy swinging a baseball bat and he’s got a very vertical swing and ...

They wanted to make more contact with pitches and they wanted to strike the ball more often with the bat’s “sweet spot ... approval from Major League Baseball of his design and methods ...

At Jeremy LeBlanc’s 50-and-up amateur baseball league game in North Carolina last weekend, one topic dominated the dugout conversation: the “torpedo bats” that had suddenly taken over the sport.

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 consumed the baseball world. Clubhouses ...