Guerrero casually snapped his bat over his leg and deposited the splintered pieces into a trash can in the dugout.

That's what made Dane Myers' reaction to his fifth-inning strikeout against the Giants on Thursday even wilder. He made a ...

Baseball physicists explain torpedo bats They look like baseball bats morphing into bowling pins, their ends flaring into an aggressive bulge that suddenly tapers. So how do they work?

But either way, baseball players saw baseball players trying something new and having success. So they started thinking about it. And they started calling and texting their contacts at bat companies.

Yet, upon further review, it was reported by many outlets that players — like Alec Bohm (Phillies), Oneil Cruz (Pirates), and Junior Caminero (Rays) — were also using the torpedo bat.

The odd shape off the bat — like making a sausage, the meat is simply pushed down the casing — has little to no effect at Victus on the dynamics of making a baseball bat. The cost is the same ...

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, ... Heinie Groh used a "bottle" bat that looked like, well, a bottle. Perfectly named bat, really.

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the “torpedo bat” that is the talk of MLB’s new season. After some ...

Jared Smith speaks about torpedo baseball bats during an interview at Victus Sports in King of Prussia, Pa., Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ...

Babe Ruth used this bat to hit his first home run in Yankee Stadium in 1923; it's seen here in 2004 at Sotheby's in New York. Bat design hasn't changed much in more than 100 years, other than ...

The thing is, the torpedo design is not the first change to baseball bats. They didn’t just arrive on the scene in the 19th century looking like they do today — it took years and years, well ...