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

and I think you’re gonna see players across the board using it.” Right now, Ainsworth says likely just “10 or 15 percent” of the league is adopting the torpedo bats, but he believes that ...

Some of them were hit by players wielding an innovation from a former team employee and a one-time MIT physicist, who reimagined the field-legal bats to be shaped more like a torpedo.

The New York Yankees made waves through the baseball world by hitting 15 home runs over their opening series against the Milwaukee Brewers, tying a Major League Baseball. When they hit nine of them, ...

While other types of modified bats, such as corked bats, are strictly forbidden in the major leagues, MLB has already confirmed that torpedo bats are legal and allowed; the league itself has even ...

adoption was hardly widespread. On the eve of the new season, less than 10% of MLB hitters using bats made by Marucci Sports were using the so-called torpedo model, said Kurt Ainsworth, the company’s ...

Nine of their MLB record-tying 15 home runs hit in their first three games were used by five players using torpedo bats, including six of a franchise-record nine homers in Saturday's 20-9 rout ...

Perhaps most notably, it was revealed that Giancarlo Stanton was swinging a version of a torpedo bat for large portions of ...

Riley, who swings Marucci bats, first noticed players from other teams using the torpedo bats this spring ... Bates is ...

You can get in touch with Noah by emailing [email protected] The new "torpedo bats" have ... Jeff Dean/Getty Images The bats have piqued the interest of many players are the league.

So, credit to those guys." We'll see as the season goes on if the torpedo bats really are responsible for more hitting. But we know other teams are jumping on the trend lightning fast. Great question!

Torpedo bats are now all the rage across the league, but opinions on the bats are split. Some players are ready to experiment with the torpedo bats. Others are quick to call them a scourge.