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 ...

Mastermind of torpedo batThe mastermind behind the design is Aaron Leanheardt, a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist turned coach for the Miami Marlins. Leanheardt, who introduced ...

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

Perhaps most notably, it was revealed that Giancarlo Stanton was swinging a version of a torpedo bat for large portions of ...

Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the ...

I am not an MIT-educated physics PhD with seven years working ... And according to Jeff Passan, all of the Yankees using the Torpedo bats are showing higher bat speeds than last year so far.

I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...

The torpedo bats are safely within MLB rules, which dictate only that bats must be “solid wood, round, shorter than 42 inches ...

The story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron ...

Paul LaMantia and Ryan LaPensee have learned a valuable lesson from early in the 2025 Major League Baseball season.

The New York Yankees quietly brought a physics experiment to the plate. Then came the home-run barrage.

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