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What's a torpedo bat? The history of the Yankees' controversial new baseball bats
The bats, however, are legal under MLB’s rules. And more teams are now looking to add torpedo bats to their own ...
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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 ... Baltimore Orioles to bring the torpedo design to ...
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 ...
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Are torpedo bats legal? How they work, MLB facts to know
The opening weekend of the 2025 MLB season was taken over by ... the Yankees and the bat that could be changing baseball The idea of the torpedo bat is to take a size format -- say, 34 ...
Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins believes torpedo bats could lead to higher batting averages
Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins talked about torpedo bats and what they can do for hitters during an appearance on ...
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred weighs in on torpedo bats: 'They’re absolutely good for baseball'
One individual voice who had not weighed in on the situation, however, was MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. He remedied that ...
Bob Raissman: Torpedo bats power the conversation in baseball’s opening week
Unless you consider bad weather or an early season injury hot stuff, the first few days of a new baseball season rarely ...