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 ...

But because of the shape, the bat feels easier to swing, and the ball is more likely to make contact with the bat’s thickest section, leading to a more solid hit. A traditional baseball bat has ...

Sponsor Message The logic behind the torpedo bats seems deceptively simple: Their bulbous shape comes from analyzing how hitters tend to make contact with the ball. "If they're making contact at ...

The specialized bats were created by 48-year-old Aaron Leanhardt ... but that wasn't where on the bat they were trying to hit the ball. "The eureka moment, really, was when players pointed ...

Axis Bats has been a favorite brand with Major League players for 18 years. Now, it's shifted to support players in training ...

So something with even a modest effect on the trajectory of the ball is intriguing. And that's why there's been so much talk over the last week about bats. Unlike normal wooden bats, which are ...

Though it seems like common sense that adding heft to the part of the bat where a player hits the ball would be advantageous, several physicists who study baseball bats told me that’s not ...

The latest swing in the state of play has produced an unprecedented four-year run of power hitting. Unlike some of the other ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage in Major League Baseball ... in the quality of contact made on a given connection with the ball. Long's full quote about what he deemed a "fallacy" is below: I ...

But after dozens of swings in the cage, where he said the balance was better, the ball sounded more crisp off the bat, the left-handed hitter ordered on the spot four custom-crafted torpedo bats ...

If a hitter is used to hitting the ball on the label, the torpedo bats are designed so that there is more wood — and more mass — in that sweet spot. In that way, the harder and fatter part of ...