This design designates more wood to the sweet spot of the bat and less toward the bat's tip ... He tried them out, didn't like the feel." According to $87.5 million Cardinals catcher Contreras's ...

The opening weekend of the 2025 MLB season was taken over by a surprise star -- torpedo bats. The bowling pin-shaped bats became the talk of the sport after the Yankees' home run onslaught on the ...

Torpedo bats are the explosive new trend in baseball after the New York Yankees set a franchise record Saturday, hitting nine home runs — the first four of which were back to back to back to ...

And at the center of it all? “Torpedo” bats. The Bronx Bombers tied an MLB record as they hit 15 home runs in their opening three-game series – including a franchise-record nine in their 20 ...

They wanted to make more contact with pitches and they wanted to strike the ball more often with the bat’s “sweet spot,” or the densest area.“They’re going to point to a location on the ...

A week has passed since torpedo bats burst onto the scene as the talk of the 2025 MLB season, and the hitting innovation is still buzzing through the industry. We asked our MLB reporters to talk ...

The torpedo bat -- also known as the bowling pin bat -- features a barrel which is redistributed towards the handle and is meant to give hitters a larger sweet spot for them to be able to have an ...

The New York Yankees' torpedo bats are the talk of Major League Baseball after the team hit a franchise-record nine home runs in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers. Paul Goldschmidt, Cody ...

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees’ bats were the story of the team’s franchise-record nine-home run day against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. Then came the discussion about the actual ...

It has been the talk of baseball since Saturday, March 29th, after the New York Yankees hit 9 home runs against the Milwaukee Brewers and drove in 20: the Torpedo Bat. The bat itself has been ...

Giancarlo Stanton embraced the torpedo bats long before they became the talk of MLB. The Yankees slugger used the bowling-pin-shaped bats last season, including during a torrid playoff run in ...

This was a few weeks ago, before St. John’s ill-fated trip to Providence, and Van Gundy was ruminating about the year he spent on Rick Pitino’s staff with the Providence Friars in 1986-87.