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

The introduction of the "torpedo bat" has dominated the discussion of MLB's opening week, and it's not hard to see why. After a century and a half of baseball's existence, a New York Yankees in-house physicist had the idea to thicken the barrel of the bat where it most often hits the ball and the result has been,

The torpedo bat may be to baseball what the ideal notebook is to writing – a tool that makes the user feel more like whatever it is they aspire to be

Despite losing their first game of the MLB season, the New York Yankees continued their historic start to the year as they broke multiple records through their prolific home run hitting.

For the MIT-educated physicist behind the torpedo bat, it’s more about the talent of the players than their lumber at the plate

The torpedo bats used by some New York Yankees players during their offensive onslaught against the Milwaukee Brewers have taken MLB by storm. What are they?

If a torpedo bat revolution is underway in MLB, the New York Yankees might be at the forefront of it, but the Cincinnati Reds are close behind.

The new torpedo bats some Yankees players used made for many home runs, so many that the Yankees' 15 home runs in their first three games matched the 2006 Detroit Tigers for the most in MLB history. The Bronx Bombers lived up to their nickname,