It makes sense, then, that the talk around Major League Baseball after Opening Weekend concerned not a player or a team, a play or a result, but a piece of lumber: the torpedo bat. After speaking on Monday with various front-office personnel,

Unlike a traditional bat, on torpedo bats the wooden portion starts further down the barrel, moving the "wood toward the sweet spot of the bat, where players try to

The Bronx Bombers now have torpedoes in their arsenal. The New York Yankees officially launched the “torpedo bat” era over the weekend — with multiple players using a modified baseball bat during the team’s historic offensive onslaught in its opening series of the 2025 season.