Roy Hobbs, the fabled swinger of his beloved “Wonderboy,” might disagree. But there really is no such thing as a “magic bat.” ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage around Major League Baseball this week, but are they here to stay? The Yankees’ power display over the weekend \-\- New York hit 15 home runs in a three-game home sweep o ...

Connecticut bat-makers weigh in on baseball’s new craze, the torpedo; UConn hockey’s rise, women’s March Madness timing. More ...

Can anything defuse Major League Baseball's hottest hitting weapon? The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the ...

For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it's more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate. The torpedo model — a striking design in which wood is moved ...

By now, you’ve probably heard about baseball’s greatest innovation since the curveball: MLB’s new “torpedo” bat, the ...

Alec Bohm had a torpedo bat for the Phillies' home opener at Citizens Bank Park on Monday, and singled with it to lead off the bottom of the fourth inning – though the third baseman did go 1-for-4 ...

Just two days after the New York Yankees hit a franchise-record nine homers in a game and their Torpedo Bats took baseball by storm, a bat maker is offering versions of the new bats for order.

The extraordinary torpedo bats that have taken MLB by storm may be headed toward being completely ordinary. “I think you’re going to see it across all 30 teams,”former MLB pitcher and co ...

Everyone's buzzing about how they'll perform with a torpedo bat, but those who've tried it aren't entirely convinced.