Now back to the torpedo bat. It's designed so that the wider part of the bat IS the sweet spot. Since it’s wider, it's easier to hit the ball. Since that part is the sweet spot, it gives the ball a ...

Mastermind of torpedo batThe mastermind behind the design is Aaron Leanheardt, a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist turned coach for the Miami Marlins. Leanheardt, who introduced ...

The Pitt News asked Pitt physics chair Andrew Zentner his thoughts on the new bats and the science behind the torpedo-shaped ...

The torpedo bats are legal, conforming to MLB's rule 3.02 ... "The guy who had the idea, of course, has a physics background," Nathan says. "So that's why I am, in a way, I'm jealous." The guy in ...

I’m just playing baseball.” That the Yankees had a historically great game, and that some players were using funny-looking ...

Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for six-and-a-half years, had a simple question he was trying to answer when ...

Perhaps most notably, it was revealed that Giancarlo Stanton was swinging a version of a torpedo bat for large portions of ...

I am not an MIT-educated physics PhD with seven years working ... And according to Jeff Passan, all of the Yankees using the Torpedo bats are showing higher bat speeds than last year so far.

The torpedo bats are safely within MLB rules, which dictate only that bats must be “solid wood, round, shorter than 42 inches ...

Many of the Yankees used torpedo bats while posting historic numbers this weekend. Here's how the team started using the ...

The torpedo bats used by some New York Yankees players during their offensive onslaught against the Milwaukee Brewers have taken MLB by storm. What are they?

There have many reports recently about a new trend that has started making waves in Major League Baseball (MLB): the torpedo ...