Fair enough. And who knows whether those players would have homered with a traditional bat, too. But either way, baseball players saw baseball players trying something new and having success.

after reading about the origins of the oddly shaped bats in The Wall Street Journal, LeBlanc came to a stunning realization. He had not only met Aaron Leanhardt, the physicist-turned-baseball ...

The torpedo shape of the bat brings more mass to the barrel of the bat. A group of young boys in baseball caps and jerseys ... jacked one beyond the outfield wall wasn't the only part of that ...

What his colleagues didn’t realize was that in the rare moments when Leanhardt wasn’t toiling away at the lab, he was moonlighting as a speedy shortstop in a local amateur baseball league.

If you were making a bowling pin on a lathe and suddenly decided to make a baseball bat instead, the result would look something like the "torpedo bat" that is the talk of MLB's new season.

As a Fantasy Baseball player, the first week of the season ... I'm open to the idea that this latest revolution in bat design might be more impactful than the axe handle or the hockey puck knob ...