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

Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating ...

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not ...

It brings more wood ... damage on the baseball," Leanhardt said about the torpedo bat via The Athletic. "There were definitely some major league players that swung it in the big leagues ...

After the Yankees' home run barrage with bats that look like bowling pins, the innovation is sweeping baseball.

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

In fact, more than three-quarters of big-league hitters ... At one point, MLB altered the rules around maple bat production out of concern that the hardness of the wood was causing them to break ...

The bat shall be one piece of solid wood." The rule further specifies that experimental bats cannot be used "until the manufacturer has secured approval from Major League Baseball of his design ...