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What's a torpedo bat? The history of the Yankees' controversial new baseball bats
The reconfiguration gives the bat the shape of a torpedo -- or a bowling pin, which doesn't sound nearly as menacing or ...
‘Torpedo’ bats ‘absolutely good for baseball,’ says MLB commissioner Robert Manfred
Never one to shy away from a controversial topic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded “torpedo” bats as the future of America ...
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A Pennsylvania company helped make the torpedo bats taking baseball by storm
The baseball season has just begun and already there's a new phenomenon on everyone's lips: torpedo bats. The bats have a tapered end and the designers moved its weight to the sweet spot, ...
Torpedo bats, axe bats, and knobs: A history of baseball bats
Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not ...
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred talks torpedo bats, robot umpires in overview of league’s future
In an interview with The New York Times, Manfred also forecasted fans getting more access to game broadcasts after the 2028 ...
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The talk of baseball: Louisville Slugger shows how the torpedo bat came to be
The torpedo shape of the bat brings more mass to the barrel of the bat. A group of young boys in baseball caps and ...
‘We need to see you now’: The untold story of how Elly De La Cruz found his torpedo bat
"It's not the noodle. It's the chef," said Scott Boras, whose agency had Louisville Slugger send client Elly De La Cruz his ...
Moneyball for Bats
The madness started, as baseball madness tends to start, with the New York Yankees: At the end of March, during the opening ...