“I was introduced to a man that was a woodworker and I was told he made baseball bats,” Valdes recalled. “He taught me how to make bats, and later on I became a better bat maker than he was.

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.

associate professor Randall Reid suggested making a baseball bat. “So I decided to make a bat for my son, who at the time was, you know, 9 or 10 years old,” Wille said. The rest was history ...

To make up for some lacking athletic ability, [Shane Wighton] of [Stuff Made Here] created a custom baseball bat with an explosive sweet spot, that almost guarantees a home run. Inside a custom ...

The torpedo bat is a custom-shaped baseball bat with a modified barrel ... It brings more wood - and mass - to where you most often make contact as a hitter. The idea is to increase the number ...

Torpedo bats have been a hit among Major League Baseball players ... (where the hitter is most likely to hit the ball) to create a custom sweet spot. The reconfiguration gives the bat the shape ...