THE BAT X thinks Mike Trout's value will improve in the second half of the season and highlights reliever Bryan King as a ...

MLB Baseball’s torpedo bat revolution is here — and it is bulbous. A Yankees home run barrage turned the oddly shaped bats into an overnight sensation, and manufacturers are scrambling to keep ...

Pitching is dialed in right now around baseball. Here’s some evidence: One pitcher throws a unique changeup in August 2024, and by the next spring training, nearly two dozen pitchers are using ...

He sent me the traditional torpedo bat and then he sent me a special model that, based off of my batted ball data, would fit better. He's been all over it. I think I first heard about it in maybe ...

CINCINNATI — Torpedo talk overwhelmed the Rangers on Monday. First thing in the morning, Josh Smith called his best man, Antoine Duplantis. And it wasn’t to relive wedding memories. Duplantis ...

Major League Baseball's bat regulations are relatively permissive. Currently, the rules allow for a maximum barrel diameter of 2.61 inches, a maximum length of 42 inches and a smooth and round shape.

While historically, bats weighed anything up to three pounds, modern bats are normally between 33 and 36 ounces. With the maximum length specified at “not more than 42 inches”, the minimum is ...

In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is making waves, shaking up the sport with its unique design and unprecedented results. Dubbed the "torpedo bat," this innovative piece of ...

While the bats have been met with their fair share of criticism and controversy, they are completely within MLB rules. 5 Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s torpedo bat up close.

The Mariners recently invited their players to a bat-fitting session. They hired a private company to run players through motion-capture technology to find what size, shape and weight of bats best ...

Marucci had also been trying to sync the seemingly ancient science of bat-making with this age of data, and it partnered with a golf-club-fitting research company to form a bat-fitting lab in 2019.