Those conversations helped create a shape — resembling a bowling pin, with a thicker middle and a tapered barrel — that the company first turned into a real, wood bat in November 2023.

Hillerich spun the bat for Hoerner in 2023, who used it in a game that November. Bellinger's bats started being made last summer, when he was still Hoerner's teammate with the Cubs. "Players didn ...

The torpedo bats have the barrel of the bat in a different location. Instead of being at the end of the bat, the barrel is closer to the handle, which gives the bat a bowling pin shape.

Can anything defuse Major League Baseball's hottest hitting weapon? The so-called torpedo bats − the MLB-legal, tailor-made bats with weight distribution toward the barrel − have become the ...

And the easiest way to do so, Leanhardt surmised, was to increase the size of the barrel on their bat. Elongating the barrel -- the fat part of the bat that generates the hardest and most contact ...

New York Yankees' Anthony Volpe bats with one of the team's newly-made torpedo-shaped bats in a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo ...