AMHERST, N.Y. (WBKW) — Buffalo Bat Company is in the process of making 'torpedo bats' for customers. That style of bat has been gaining popularity after the New York Yankees used them to start ...

Marte, who has used Tater bats since 2018, was one of many MLB players who inquired about the bat -- now known as a torpedo bat-- as the craze took baseball by storm. He wanted to place an order ...

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 ...

For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs.

Before then, Leanhardt had never really thought about the design of bats, any more than he’d thought about his glove or his spikes, he recently told reporters. But he was well positioned to ...

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As Major League Baseball teams look for an edge, some players have turned to a unique bat that’s already making waves. The “torpedo bat,” a bowling pin-shaped bat ...

During spring training, someone in the organization had mentioned to Kay that the team's analytics department had counseled players on where pitches tended to strike their bats, and with ...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — A 70-year-old man who plays in an area senior hardball league popped into Victus Sports this week because he needed bats for the new season. Plus he just had to take some ...

NEW YORK — The Torpedo Bat Era isn’t even a week old. But in the short time since Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay pointed out the team’s new, misshapen sticks on live TV, Torpedo Bat ...

The "torpedo bat" trend in baseball has taken over the internet and permeated clubhouses all over Major League Baseball as players and fans try to quickly learn what it is. The torpedo bats ...

Torpedo bats have been the focus of the baseball world at the start of the new MLB season and it’s paying off for bat companies in a big way. Marucci and Victus, the new official bats of MLB ...