You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design of a ...

The curiosity of it all is that for as much the baseball bat itself has changed, the rules presiding over those changes have changed very little. Here are the bat regulations laid out during a ...

The wood of the bat is shifted from the barrel towards the batter's hands to create a custom sweet spot where contact is most frequently made. The reconfiguration gives the bat the shape of a torpedo ...

The creative application of physics through the “torpedo bat” brings exciting change to tradition-bound baseball. No, we’re not talking about secret submarine weapons, or some unique form of flying ...

The New York Yankees have always liked size: big stars, big contracts, big games, big bodies. A short porch in right field, sure—but all the better for hitting big bombs. So perhaps it’s not ...

Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes : the evolution of echolocation in bats / Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer -- Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats / Thierry Smith ..

Two days after the New York Yankees’ offensive outburst in the Bronx made torpedo bats the talk of baseball, Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz decided to try one for the first time in batting ...

The Bronx Bombers now have torpedoes in their arsenal. The New York Yankees officially launched the “torpedo bat” era over the weekend — with multiple players using a modified baseball bat during the ...