Engineered by a former MIT physicist, the torpedo bat is completely legal under MLB rules. It meets all dimensional requirements but redistributes mass toward the barrel, creating a larger, denser sweet spot.

It's been revealed that the Yankees are using new custom bats known as "torpedo" bats, which have more wood at the label to give a larger spot to the area where players make contact. They've hit so many home runs to start the season, but it's a very small sample size. Is it the bats? Or is it that the Milwaukee Brewers ' pitching is just THAT bad?

Some oddly-shaped baseball bats have become a hot topic among fans and players, after the Yankees’ so-called “Torpedo Bats” seemingly helped some sluggers hit multiple home runs.

Check out some of the home runs hit this season by players using torpedo bats.

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not.

On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including the online hysteria surrounding the ‘torpedo bats‘ in MLB.

Torpedo Bats on cards and Jackson Merrill has 8 different autograph variations in the latest edition of Above the Mantel

Despite losing their first game of the MLB season, the New York Yankees continued their historic start to the year as they broke multiple records through their prolific home run hitting.