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Sportsbooks unfazed by new torpedo bats: ‘We don’t do any knee-jerk reactions’
Bettors are all over the torpedo bat craze, but what do the sportsbooks think? Max Meyer talked to oddsmakers to find out.
2025 MLB betting, lines, odds: How sportsbooks are adjusting to the 'torpedo bat' phenomenon
There are always plenty of unknowns to start any new season, and entering the 2025 Major League Baseball season, one of the ...
Torpedo Bats and the Physics of the Sweet Spot
Now back to the torpedo bat. It's designed so that the wider part of the bat IS the sweet spot. Since it’s wider, it's easier ...
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Rob Manfred Shared Honest Take on MLB’s Torpedo Bat Craze
Baseball bat engineers have even weighed in on the topic and explained the "fallacies" surrounding the literal impact torpedo bats are having on the game. With every single MLB team interested ...
Fox News6d
Torpedo bats, axe bats, and knobs: A history of baseball bats
You’ve been hearing all about torpedo ... Get a bat and swing it against a telephone pole. I do this with doubting young Washington players. Where is the wrist position at point of impact?
The Cincinnati Enquirer7d
Torpedo bats aren't a factor in Cincinnati high school baseball. They could be this summer
Torpedo bats have been the talk of baseball season so far after a record-setting home-run performance by the New York Yankees during Major League Baseball’s opening weekend and, closer to home ...
Sports Illustrated8d
Will New Torpedo Bats Impact Diamondbacks-Yankees Series?
The nuance? The "torpedo" bat, used widely by Yankees hitters to open the year. Torpedo bats actually aren't completely brand-new. They haven't been widely utilized across MLB since their ...
Dave Portnoy slams Yankees' torpedo bats, warns they're 'infiltrating' the 'sacred' game of baseball
Dave Portnoy rips the New York Yankees as a 'poverty franchise,' blasting their use of controversial torpedo bats as flying in the face of 'fairness and equality.' ...