In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer ...

Los Angeles Angels shortstop Nicky Lopez was standing in the batter's box after taking a ball against the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday when he was suddenly hit in the head by his own bat.

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred recently addressed the advent and rising popularity of the so-called "torpedo ...

Though it seems like common sense that adding heft to the part of the bat where a player hits the ball would be advantageous, several physicists who study baseball bats told me that’s not ...

Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game ...

What that means is that the bat probably isn’t letting players smack the ball harder or faster. In fact, balls hit by the new torpedo bat may even go a bit slower on average, Smith says.

Torpedo bats have been the talk of baseball season so far after a record-setting home-run performance by the New York Yankees during Major League Baseball’s opening weekend and, closer to home ...