Baseball bat manufacturers had ... affiliated hitters have now tried a torpedo model and said he expects that to increase to ...

Will there be a significant offensive surge in baseball now that hitters across the league want their hands on the bats? Maybe, but not anytime soon.

Torpedo bats became the unexpected stars of MLB's opening weekend. The torpedo bats differ from traditional wood bats, which gradually get thicker moving away from the handle until plateauing at ...

Business was about to boom, too. Torpedo bats are driving an unprecedented surge in lumber curiosity Victus spent most of the last 14 years trying to help shape the future of baseball. The company ...

“The swings were hitting the thickness of the torpedo as opposed to the end of the bat.” Costantini’s purchase highlighted the surge of interest in baseball’s shiny new toy outside the major ...

He built his impressive résumé by swinging a typical bat, with the ... me a couple of those torpedo bats.” One veteran Philadelphia Phillies hitter said a bat manufacturing company named ...

Again, it's unclear when these bats, reportedly described in-house as a "torpedo" barrel, were implemented, as Smith left the Yankees organization last October. Still, he provided a detailed ...

Can anything defuse Major League Baseball's hottest hitting weapon? The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the ...

WELL, LOUISVILLE SLUGGERS TORPEDO ... manufacturing and product development Bob Hillerich with Hillerich & Bradsby Co.This means that players can start the season out with a more generic model of ...

The New York Yankees teed off on the Milwaukee Brewers at will Saturday, with some interesting equipment. Amid a nine-homer, 16-hit demolition of the Brewers' pitching staff — which started with ...