"To make it into a wood bat and maximize the ideal hitting area, they had to come up with this torpedo shape and reduce the ...

Today’s guest columnists are professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. Torpedo bats are having their moment. With their dramatically tapered barrels and enlarged sweet spots, these odd-looking clubs ...

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

Torpedo bats in MLB are here to stay — and could spark further exploration for a technological edge in baseball and beyond.

Some Major League Baseball players are changing up the type of bat they use in favor of ones that feature the thickest part ...