After nearly 150 years of professional baseball, the traditional wood baseball bat is getting a makeover, and the early returns have been eye-popping. A handful of New York Yankees players praised ...

“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 ...

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season.

A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports this week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball’s ...

Enter the so-called “torpedo bat.” The new, odd-looking bat that has taken the baseball world by storm isn’t likely to lead to the kind of offensive production the Yankees featured in their ...

If major leaguers continue to use the bats successfully — and the future generations of baseball catch on, too — these bats could become a staple of the game sooner than later. While the bats ...

In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is making waves, shaking up the sport with its unique design and unprecedented results. Dubbed the "torpedo bat," this innovative piece of ...

It moves the sweet spot down the barrel, to help batters who hit near the label and tend to break bats. The owner of Axis Sports, a baseball bat factory in Fall River, said they have been ...

But that freaky, freaky game, particularly because it featured such a dominant performance by one of the most talked-about teams in baseball, put the spotlight on the bats some of them were using.

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. "They're absolutely good for baseball," Manfred ...