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 ...

In his playing days, Eric Gagne’s objective was simple. “My job was to break bats,” the former Dodgers closer joked with a laugh. Which makes his current occupation, as chief executive of Quebec-based ...

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 cuts ...

Scientists took their best swing at the torpedo bat design, which relies on a slightly different shape in which wood is removed from the barrel tip and added to the bat's sweet spot.

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, as well ...

Baseball bat manufacturers had little evidence to suggest a spike in sales was just around the corner when Major League Baseball’s newest season opened last week. It had been four years since ...

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 Mania has ...

NEW YORK — Aaron Boone was asked one of the many questions that everyone has been wondering about ever since torpedo bats hijacked public discourse. Does he believe there will be a significant ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the biggest story of the first week of the 2025 MLB season is “torpedo bats,” the oddly shaped lumber that burst onto the scene thanks to the ...