Paul LaMantia and Ryan LaPensee have learned a valuable lesson from early in the 2025 Major League Baseball season.

Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...

The newest innovation in baseball, the bat has a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player most frequently makes contact.

The bats are designed to be skinnier at the top end, with noticeably more wood in the area around the label (where the hitter is most likely to hit the ball) to create a custom sweet spot.

"Torpedo" bats have caught on in Major League Baseball, but it might be some time before players in the minor leagues follow ...

The bats have a striking design in which wood is moved lower down the barrel and the end is shaped a little like a bowling ...

Johnson said the uptick in homers has led some SEC coaches to believe the college game should transition to using wooden bats. Johnson is not among them. He argues home runs and high scores have ...

But, others question its place in a league that has long used aluminum bats. “As far as high school, we don’t use wood bats, we use aluminum bats,” Celina baseball coach Troy McCartney said.

The torpedo bat's rise has changed the industry for the companies that make them. Here is one bat-maker's story.