For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in ...

Opening weekend of the MLB season and all the buzz was about one surprising star: torpedo bats. Who knew they were made right ...

The newest innovation in baseball, the bat has a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player ...

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

A new product on the market is helping Major League Baseball hitters, and it's completely legal. Several teams like the New ...

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

"Torpedo" bats have caught on in Major League Baseball, but it might be some time before players in the minor leagues follow ...

James Wood was efficient. With one swing, the 22-year-old Wood checked off multiple career milestones and launched himself ...

Those conversations helped create a shape — resembling a bowling pin, with a thicker middle and a tapered barrel — that the ...

In the white division of the WOW Wood Bat Tournament, Bishop LeBlond won its first two matchups by an average of almost 13 runs. Like the Lions, the momentum wouldn’t carry over into the ...

Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little ...