Updated on: April 1, 2025 / 8:24 AM EDT / CBS Boston 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.

The cost is the same as a standard bat, too, with a sticker price starting at around $200. Only the slogan is punched up: Get your hands on the most-talked about bat in the game.

After the new design erupted into the public's attention last weekend, there was an instant surge of interest. “There are 1,500 preorders for a bat that doesn’t exist," one exec said.

Origins of a revolution The man credited with inventing the torpedo bat is a character who would not have found his way into many clubhouses before this data-heavy era: Aaron Leanhardt is an MIT ...

Bat design hasn't changed much in more than 100 years, other than their weight dropping from above 40 ounces in Ruth's case to the current norm of around 31 or 32 ounces, baseball experts tell NPR.

The "torpedo" bat used by several players on the New York Yankees was created by Aaron Leanhardt, an MIT physicist who now coaches for the Miami Marlins. Leanhardt developed the torpedo bat from ...

More: These Yankees bats are a hit in MLB baseball. Who makes the new torpedo bat? Are they for sale? The new bats, named for their torpedo shape, bring more wood to the bat's barrel, where a ...

Nolan Arenado 's bat speed Changes over time seem like the most useful thing about the bat-tracking data, and with Arenado, we saw his bat speed decline in 2024, dropping from 71.4 mph in 2023 ...