Russell, Smith, and Nathan weren't involved in designing the new bats. But they have a long history of studying how baseball works, including a collaboration studying illegal "corked" bats.

“As well as some minor-league players who swung it in some real baseball games in 2023, and it just kind of built up throughout 2024 into what it is today.” The bats won’t be under the radar ...

"Torpedo" is probably too aggressive a word for a differently shaped baseball bat, but "potentially incrementally advantageous design" just doesn't roll off the tongue in the same way. You don't ...

NEW YORK — The Torpedo Bat Era isn’t even a week old ... Torpedo Bat Mania has consumed the baseball world. Clubhouses, press boxes, bleachers and broadcasts are abuzz with questions and ...

“Now my job is to make sure the bats don’t break anymore, make sure the ball goes farther,” Gagne said in a phone interview this week. “That was my enemy back in the day.” Where Gagne ...

Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating conversation. And at the center of it all? “Torpedo” bats. The Bronx ...

this doesn’t happen.” Victus was stamped this season as the official bat of Major League Baseball and business was already good: Phillies slugger Bryce Harper is among the stars who stick ...