“Every two minutes, another one comes out of the machine,” Smith said. Who knew there would be a baseball bat craze? On a good day, Victus makes 600-700 bats, but the influx of pro orders ...

The wood of the bat ... baseball’s radar. Some social media users and baseball purists -- and at least one opposing player – then returned fire, saying the bats should be outlawed. Feeling out ...

Veteran Athletics bat boy Stewart Thalblum used a bat to swat down a drone that suddenly appeared near the left-field wall ...

What differentiates a torpedo bat from a standard bat is the shape. A torpedo bat features a thicker sweet spot — or barrel — before thinning out near the top of the bat. The shape resembles a ...

“Got a lot of laughs when it first came out 25 years ago,” says Dusza. Largely because of its weird, wider look than a traditional baseball bat. But that shape is what gives some hitters an edge.

And it’s not the first reinvention of the baseball bat, as Marucci designed the “puck knob” just a few years ago. “We created a puck knob here in this lab for Paul Goldschmidt ...

The reconfiguration gives the bat the shape of a torpedo or, as some have pointed out, a bowling pin. Several baseball bat manufacturers, such as Victus, listed torpedo-style bats for sale on ...

pointed out that some of them came from hitters using a new bat shape. The fascination was immediate. While baseball, as an industry, has implemented forward-thinking rules in recent seasons ...