Comfort with a bat is vital for it to go from BP to a big league game, and in a sport where advantages don't stay secret very long, New York's might wind up lasting all of one weekend.

The baseball season is only a few days old, and a new “bowling pin” bat has set the game on fire. It’s the result of some fascinating science, and a whole bunch of supply chain optimization ...

Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz used a torpedo bat for a game for the first time on Monday night. He hit his first two homers of the season and finished with a career-high seven RBIs in ...

The new, odd-looking bat that has taken the baseball world by storm isn’t likely to lead to the kind of offensive production the Yankees featured in their season-opening three-game sweep of ...

The “torpedo bat,” a bowling pin-shaped bat with a shifted sweet spot, helped New York Yankees players hit nine home runs in one game on opening weekend. Now, a Colorado Springs bat maker is ...

If Stanton can resemble his play in the ALCS, that would be terrific for the Yankees in this championship-or-bust season. But, overall, if this new bat design is the cause of these kinds of ...

Now the data revolution is reimagining one of the game’s most fundamental tools: the bat. The idea of the bowling-pin shape is actually a few years old and has been explored by multiple teams.

Aaron Judge, using a bat with a conventional shape, hit a 468-foot shot that made the Yankees the first team to homer on each of a game's first three pitches since MLB's records began in 1988.

It basically makes the end of the bat more shaped like a bowling pin. Kay's explanation: "The Yankee front office, the analytics department, did a study on Anthony Volpe and every single ball, it ...

Because the data -- on bat velocity as well as effectiveness -- is of such a limited sample, nobody is yet proclaiming that the bowling pin bat will unquestionably revolutionize the game.