The checks, introduced on 13 April, are designed to ensure that all bats conform to a law introduced by the England and Wales ...

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not ...

Three weeks ago, the Wellsburg Baseball and Softball Association had virtually no money and very little hope for the upcoming ...

While other types of modified bats, such as corked bats, are strictly forbidden in the major leagues, MLB has already confirmed that torpedo bats are legal and allowed; the league itself has even ...

Baseball fans everywhere are talking about torpedo bats, the oddly-shaped bats giving hitters newfound strength. We visited ...

Vázquez, who was out for early batting practice Wednesday, has watched his offensive numbers dip in the last three seasons.

Now back to the torpedo bat. It's designed so that the wider part of the bat IS the sweet spot. Since it’s wider, it's easier to hit the ball. Since that part is the sweet spot, it gives the ball a ...

By now, you’ve probably heard about baseball’s greatest innovation since the curveball: MLB’s new “torpedo” bat, the reconfigured bat that moves the barrel — or the sweet spot — closer to the handle, ...

Teoscar Hernández hits a go-ahead home run and Kiké Hernández hits a three-run homer as the Dodgers end a three-game losing ...

To address this inefficiency, torpedo bats are made with more wood in the sweet spot and less wood elsewhere—thus, the bulge. The idea was to “put it where you’re trying to hit the ball,” Leanhardt ...

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Torpedo bats are changing Major League Baseball, but with his head in the sand, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred wants us to know: "Nothing to see here!" ...