The torpedo bat is hardly an automatic slugging percentage producer — it's difficult to take any hard analysis on the bat's effect seriously when some teams haven't played in their own ballpark yet — but it's at least something new in a sport historically resistant to change.

According to Fox 29 Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Phillies are considering using the torpedo bats. In an interview with Victus Sports in King of Prussia, Doug Trimble, the Marketing Director, alluded to the potential for the torpedo bats to appear at Citizens Bank Park.

The Phillies could have used real torpedos Monday early on, as they kept hitting balls into Rockies gloves at the wrong times over the first 6.2 innings. But the sellout crowd for the home opener wasn’t going to be quiet just because the hitters were getting frustrated.