At 1:54 ET on Saturday afternoon, New York Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay lit the fuse on what will be remembered as ...

Connecticut bat-makers weigh in on baseball’s new craze, the torpedo; UConn hockey’s rise, women’s March Madness timing. More in Sunday Read.

After the Yankees' home run barrage with bats that look like bowling pins, the innovation is sweeping baseball.

According to a league source, the bat shape does not violate the Official Baseball Rules ... said he tried 4-5 different bats before he settled on one he liked. Volpe said the first mockup that was ...

Today’s guest columnists are professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. Torpedo bats are having their moment. With their dramatically tapered barrels and enlarged sweet spots, these odd-looking clubs ...

In the early days of this year’s season, 'torpedo' bats have become all the rage for big-league hitters. And now, they are ...

The Yankees debuted a new style of baseball bat on March 28th, which added more wood to the barrel of the bat to increase the maximize players’ ability to hit the ball hard. Yankees players claimed ...

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

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the biggest story of the first week of the 2025 MLB season is “torpedo ...

Torpedo bats are changing Major League Baseball, but with his head in the ... ball-strike umpire was used in about 60% of spring training games this year. Even had a name: The Automated Ball ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred ... the testing of robot umpires during spring training. He said he'd like to see their use expanded ...