Sure enough, the first week of the 2025 Major League Baseball season has already put on display some new concepts. These range from the dawning of a new bat model to the embrace of new pitches and even to the unveiling of new ways to analyze the action.

While other types of modified bats, such as corked bats, are strictly forbidden in the major leagues, MLB has already confirmed that torpedo bats are legal and allowed; the league itself has even released news articles highlighting them. This could pave the way for a new era of baseball, one in which home-run hitters take precedence.

It should be noted that one Yankee declined to use the torpedo bat. Aaron Judge said he was more comfortable with conventional lumber, which is what he used to blast four home runs in 11 at bats. The Brewers finally gave up and walked him intentionally — with the bases empty.

Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin, the torpedo bat has become baseball’s latest

While baseball can sometimes be on the sporting back burner, torpedo bats have captured everyone's attention. What's going on.

The extraordinary torpedo bats that have taken MLB by storm may ... If major leaguers continue to use the bats successfully — and the future generations of baseball catch on, too — these ...

Baseball has always been a game of tradition, where changes to equipment-like the bat-happen slowly, if at all. Enter the Torpedo Bat, a new design that is shaking up the sport by

Torpedo bats are just the beginning when it comes to the changes we'll see coming to bats in Major League Baseball. Keenan Long of LongBall Labs joined MLB Now on Thursday to discuss the new bats and what is next in the search for technology impacting offense in MLB.