After the Yankees' home run barrage with bats that look like bowling pins, the innovation is sweeping baseball.

After a stellar Yankees win on Saturday, torpedo bats are in the spotlight. Is there science behind these baseball bats?

Former Yankees’ staffer Aaron Leanhardt is credited with the design of the bat. Leanhardt’s Linkedin profile notes that he graduated from MIT with a PhD in physics, and spent almost seven years as a ...

It generally sits four-to-six inches down from the tip of the bat, and what the torpedo design has done is to shift thickness from the end of the bat (which seldom produces hits) down towards that ...

"To make it into a wood bat and maximize the ideal hitting area, they had to come up with this torpedo shape and reduce the ...

In creating the "torpedo" bat, also known as the bowling pin bat, the weight of the wood was redistributed "from the end of the bat toward the area [six] to [seven] inches below its tip ...

The barrel taper then reverses, narrowing toward the bat tip. A torpedo bat, left ... “Start with the observation that the end of the bat is not all that useful,” said Nathan in an interview ...

But torpedo bats slim down again closer to the end, centering the bat's weight to ... “They noticed themselves that the tip was the fattest part of the bat, and then everyone just looked at ...

The person holding court for Monday afternoon’s largest media scrum wasn’t superstars Juan Soto or Francisco Lindor, but ...

Enter the torpedo bat, in which more of the wood is distributed to where a hitter most often makes contact with the baseball, which for them is lower than the end of ... from the tip of the ...

The reaction across MLB to the design of the New York Yankees' new 'torpedo' bats after the Bronx Bombers belted 13 home runs in two games was swift.