"JP hits them hard," Hempfield Black coach Brian Biggs said. "He hits a lot of long balls." The sound of the Hempfield ...

The NECBL has named a pair of North Adams SteepleCats to the North Division squad for this weekend's All-Star Game at Upper ...

As a high school senior playing at a high level in Arizona, Jack Ohman hit .341 with an on-base percentage of .487.

But they remember the Bananas, and their affiliate teams the Party Animals and Firefighters, which play what has become known as Banana Ball. Bengals schedule 2025 ... back catches and fancy throws ...

The ball travels farther and faster off an aluminum bat, helping give players a little extra oomph at the plate. The metal bats have been found to have a larger sweet spot than their wooden ...

At Evansville, he used a 33-inch Rawlings Icon metal bat. Similar to his college season, Longmeier struggled out of the gate with the Woodchucks with a single hit in his first 13 at-bats.

Miller, a self-described "baseball mom," said she has seen studies showing that the ball flies off aluminum bats faster than wooden bats, giving players less time to react.

Aluminum bats are lightweight and forgiving, but he said most players, aside from professionals who are required to use wooden bats, are pleasantly surprised to “see what you can do with wood.” To ...

The April 14 edition of the SBJ Unpacks newsletter recaps this week's magazine cover story on the torpedo bat's innovative entrance in MLB, ESPN making deals with the Savannah Bananas and La Liga, Ace ...

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.

In other words, the weight of the barrel is mostly where the bat would make contact with the ball, thereby sending the ball further, and, as a bonus, making the bat easier to swing. Aaron Leanhardt, a ...