Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel has been known to carry a wooden baseball bat around the team facility, and it’s been credited ...

In his playing days, Eric Gagne’s objective was simple. “My job was to break bats,” the former Dodgers closer joked with a laugh. Which makes his current occupation, as chief executive of Quebec-based ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (AP) — A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports this week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus he just had to take some ...

CHESHIRE, Conn. (WFSB) - Torpedo style bats are taking baseball by storm, after the New York Yankees scored 32 runs and hit a number of home runs this weekend. “Minor league players, major league ...

The New York Yankees smashed 15 home runs in their first three games of the 2025 Major League Baseball season last week, largely thanks to a brand new tool: torpedo bats. These revolutionary new bats, ...

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season. After some ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Zach Dezenzo was rehabbing an injury at the Houston Astros’ minor-league facility in Florida last season when he first beheld a bat that he still thinks “looks weird.” Its barrel bulged ...

MLB has weighed in on the New York Yankees’ “torpedo” style bats that drew attention on Saturday. The Yankees pounded out 9 home runs amid a 20-9 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. They set a franchise ...

Missing Bats, a special series this week in The Athletic, explores how baseball’s profound metamorphosis over the last two decades traces back to one simple idea — maximizing strikeouts at all costs — ...

There are five Yankees currently using the “torpedo bats” that had their explosive regular-season debut over the weekend. And while the testing out of those bats across the sport appears ready to ...

While meant to simulate wood bats, regulation USA Baseball metal bats are more forgiving than wood for young players who might not connect with the ball on a bat's optimal 'sweet spot.' After testing ...

The crack of a ball hitting off a wooden bat and echoing throughout a stadium is central to the ethos and mythology of baseball, the kind of sound that conjures images and memories of picturesque ...