Major league prestige has helped Louisiana's Marucci Sports carve out a chunk of a much bigger market: selling bats to ...

Marucci bats were officially approved by MLB for in-game use in 2005. Then, over the next two decades, Marucci gained more high-profile users and everyday fans.

Louisville Slugger has been synonymous with Major League Baseball for more than 100 years, but now Marucci Sports, a company founded in 2002, has replaced it as MLB’s official bat. “I created ...

That’s why several bat manufacturers, including Marucci and Victus, the official bats of MLB, as well as Chandler Bats and Louisville Slugger, rushed to capitalize on the moment to begin selling ...

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 chief executive.

Marucci is one of the official bats of MLB, along with Victus (Marucci purchased Victus in 2017). Together, they provide bats to a majority of the players in MLB. Those include Francisco Lindor ...

Marucci had also been trying to sync the seemingly ancient science of bat-making with this age of data, and it partnered with a golf-club-fitting research company to form a bat-fitting lab in 2019.

Louisiana Considered’s Alana Schreiber visited Marucci Sports, a bat manufacturer in Baton Rouge to find out. Torpedo bats are all over the news these days. It started in late March when the ...

In the meantime, other retailers have swooped in to capitalize off baseball's newest craze. Torpedo bats are available for sale from outlets that include Marucci Sports, RPG Authentic Bats, and ...

Marucci and Chandler Bats have also opted to sell torpedo bats. Marucci listed the torpedo-style bat used by New York Mets slugger Francisco Lindor, the Lindy12 Torpedo Pro Exclusive, for $189.99.

The bat shall be a smooth, ... Torpedo bats are available for sale from outlets that include Marucci Sports, RPG Authentic Bats, and Victus. How much is a torpedo bat? They're not cheap.

Kurt Ainsworth with the Giants in 2003. Getty Images. And it’s not just the major leagues, as Ainsworth noted that Marucci is beginning to get orders from youth baseball players as well.