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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded “torpedo” bats as the future of America ...

Nathan is a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Illinois ... for the league and its teams. He’d heard of torpedo bats, but because they weren’t widely used he hadn’t really ...