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.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...