Major League Baseball is buzzing over torpedo bats. Here's an inside look at the demand for the bats, and how one factory is trying to keep up.

The Yankees were at PNC Park for the Pirates home opener on Friday, and they brought their torpedo bats with them.

MINNEAPOLIS — Zach Dezenzo was rehabbing an injury at the Houston Astros’ minor-league facility in Florida last season when he first beheld a bat that he still thinks “looks weird.” Its barrel bulged and tapered into a skinner end. Its shape resembled that of a bowling pin.

After the new design erupted into the public’s attention last weekend, there was an instant surge of interest.

Victus Sports CEO Jared Smith, whose company produces the official bats for Major League Baseball, estimated that about 25 percent of MLB players have contacted them or parent company Marucci to test the new bats, according to Caleb Mezzy of The Athletic.

The new bats caused excitement when New York Yankees hitters clobbered home runs with them opening weekend, and that has some Portland players eager to give the torpedo bat some swings.

But all the attention is on torpedo bats, the differently shaped bat that has helped power the Yankees' historic offensive start. On the torpedo bats, the barrel is closer to the label and therefore closer to the batters' hands.

Yahoo Sports national MLB insider Russell Dorsey comments on the wide ‘overreaction’ to new bat technology being utilized throughout Major League Baseball.