MLB confirmed the bats are indeed legal. The torpedo style bats are the product of Aaron Leanhardt aka “Lenny,” a former MIT physicist, who has worked as a hitting coach in baseball.

“A typical baseball bat would feature the largest part of the barrel being towards the end ... come up with this torpedo shape and reduce the size at the end of the bat,” said Tucci.

Major League Baseball has been taken over ... “They showed me that my bat barrel was like 20th percentile in barrel size. Why am I using a bat with a tiny barrel when I can maximize that?

But the bats abide by Major League Baseball's collectively bargained bat specifications for shape (round and smooth), barrel size (no larger than 2.61 inches in diameter) and length (a maximum of ...

This year the club introduced a new bat featuring what they call a “Torpedo Barrel,” and it’s quite literally breaking the game of baseball ... The sample size is small, and obviously ...

Torpedo bats ... baseball. As part of the discussion, Long wanted to point out something people are getting wrong about bat structure. Long noted that mass at the end of the bat beyond the barrel ...

The New York Yankees smashed 15 home runs in their first three games of the 2025 Major League Baseball season last week, largely thanks to a brand new tool: torpedo bats. These revolutionary new ...

Torpedo bats have been a hit among Major League Baseball players. The MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel have become the talk of the town after the New York ...