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 ...

"For the average person, what it means is if you lower the swing weight of a bat, your batted ball speed goes down a little bit," Smith says. Of course, major league hitters are not average people.

That was, of course, until Paul ... 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.

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.

Five players – Paul Goldschmidt ... explanation, Smith said, is that moving more of a bat's mass into the spot on it where a player makes the most contact with the ball can be advantageous.

All that against their former teammate Nestor Cortes Jr. Paul Goldschmidt ... These are custom-made bats to improve hitting performance by making contact with the ball. The team’s genius ...

"Torpedo" talk filled baseball airwaves Monday with managers, players and physicists wanting to know more about the long-ball-launching ... the bat. Former Yankees infielder Kevin Smith, who ...

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 ...

The New York Yankees' torpedo bats are the talk of Major League Baseball after the team hit a franchise-record nine home runs in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers. Paul Goldschmidt, Cody ...

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 ...