A handful of Yankees had used unconventional instruments to hit their home runs: Their bats bulged out a little near the end, ...

The story of the 2025 MLB season so far is the torpedo bat designed by Miami Marlins coach and former MIT physicist Aaron ...

While MLB’s ever-evolving Statcast apparatus has published detailed batted-ball data dating back to 2015, bat tracking is a far more recent addition to the space, rolled out about a year ago.

the "torpedo" bat moves wood from the end of the bat down to where a player more often makes contact with the ball. The idea is to adapt the sweet spot accordingly, so every player's bat is unique.