Aaron Leanhardt, a former physicist who now works for the Miami Marlins, has been credited with working with various batmakers to develop the bowling-pin design during his time with the Yankees ...

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to ... scientists who study baseball quickly took notice. "The same bat design has been in existence for a century and a half ...

The creation of the bowling pin bat (also known as the torpedo bat) optimizes the most important tool in baseball by redistributing weight from the end of the bat toward the area 6 to 7 inches ...

The design, which shrunk the end of the barrel to pack more weight into the sweet spot, made the bat look like a torpedo or a bowling pin (with the effect of a torpedo for the Yankees).

"They're going to be more like that bowling pin. Giancarlo is a swing-and-miss ... But, overall, if this new bat design is the cause of these kinds of ailments, it certainly is not worth the ...

The torpedo model — a striking design in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin — became the talk of major league baseball ...

Megill's sentiments on the "bowling pin" bats weren't shared by some of his teammates, however. Brewers first baseman Rhys Hoskins expressed interest in the bats, telling the NY Post, "They ...