As a result, shifting some wood from the end of the barrel to the sweet spot will not make the bat more powerful, Lloyd Smith, a mechanical engineer who studies ball-bat collisions at Washington ...

The bigger you can have the barrel where you’re going to hit the ball makes ... Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt and Austin Wells are the other Yankees using the torpedo bat.

“I don't think this is going to revolutionize the game in the same way that we saw with the Yankees over the weekend,” professor Lloyd Smith ... on the bat the batter hits the ball most ...

Judge, Paul ... s bat, which appeared to have a big barrel and a skinnier handle. "The Yankee front office, the analytics department, did a study on Anthony Volpe and every single ball he seemed ...

But after dozens of swings in the cage, where he said the balance was better, the ball sounded more ... the ol’ reliable wood bat itself.That was, of course, until Paul Goldschmidt and Cody ...

the hardness of the wood transmitted more energy from the bat to the ball than ash. During spring training in 1999, he called Smith to vent about how, after visiting various camps, he was drowning ...

New "torpedo" baseball bats are making waves ... have the barrel where you hit the ball, it makes sense to me." Volpe, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt and Austin Wells combined ...

The Sports Science Laboratory at Washington State University "specializes in the dynamics of bat and ball collisions." Hans Anderson is a producer on KUOW’s Soundside, where he covers a diverse ...

The Yankees analytics department looked at every player’s hitting data so that the widest part of the bat – or the barrel – could be placed where they most often hit the ball. For shortstop ...

"You’ve still got to hit the ball," Turner said. Turner, though, said he was open to trying the torpedo. "For bats to be the hot topic out in the zeitgeist is cool," Smith said. "It’s kind of ...