Today’s guest columnists are professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. Torpedo bats are having their moment. With their ...

Nola has walked four batters in consecutive games for the first time in his career and raised his ERA to 6.65 through four ...

IN THE FIRST inning of a July game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Skenes left the Pirates' dugout and beelined into the ...

Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...

The Pitt News asked Pitt physics chair Andrew Zentner his thoughts on the new bats and the science behind the torpedo-shaped ...

Despite his underwhelming batting average, Swanson's metrics tell a different story. His ISO (.263) and HardHit% (51.1%) are career highs, while his strikeout rate has dropped by nearly six percent.

Torpedo bats in MLB are here to stay — and could spark further exploration for a technological edge in baseball and beyond.

What differentiates a torpedo bat from a standard bat is the shape. A torpedo bat features a thicker sweet spot — or barrel — before thinning out near the top of the bat. The shape resembles a ...

Like it or not, the Cincinnati Reds' Elly De La Cruz just dumped a ton of fuel on the torpedo-style bat conversation that's engulfed MLB. Playing against the Texas Rangers Monday at Great American ...

The biggest storyline of the young 2025 MLB season has been the use of torpedo bats. It's not an inflated Wiffle ball bat or a skewed image, rather it's a bat where the barrel is located closer to ...

Plus he just had to take some cuts with baseball's latest fad and see for himself if there really was some wizardry in the wallop off a torpedo bat. Ed Costantini, of Newtown Square, picked up the ...