SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – “Torpedo bats” have recently been all the rage in Major League Baseball. The New York Yankees debuted these bats this season on their way to tying an MLB record with 15 ...

Baton Rouge, LA – As other sports have adapted to technology advancement, popular opinion and culture shifts, baseball has been a stalwart in tradition – one of which is the bats hitters use. But in ...

Torpedo baseball bats hit it big when the Yankees set a new team record with nine home runs in one game earlier this season. We visit a factory in Louisiana to see what makes them so special. Torpedo ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred believes all that chatter is positive for the sport. “They’re absolutely good for baseball,” Manfred said ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The viral bat, which is shaped like a ...

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred lent his support to the so-called torpedo bats, which have captured the attention of baseball fans and pundits since the start of the 2025 season. The bats were first ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins joined the ongoing discussion this week about the use of torpedo bats that has taken the big leagues by storm after the New York Yankees' strong outing over ...

If you’re a baseball fan, then you know it’s impossible to watch a game these days without hearing about torpedo bats, the new bat design giving hitters unforeseen power. But what is it about these ...

The crack of a ball hitting off a wooden bat and echoing throughout a stadium is central to the ethos and mythology of baseball, the kind of sound that conjures images and memories of picturesque ...

The curiosity of it all is that for as much the baseball bat itself has changed, the rules presiding over those changes have changed very little. Here are the bat regulations laid out during a ...