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.

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 ...

Are these bats a ... is the idea of custom bat fittings. The idea of scientifically engineering the club to the player is commonplace in golf. Such a process also exists in baseball, but I expect ...

While the torpedo bat ... of baseball lovers, it's a bat created on MOI. That's "moment of inertia." "The object of the game apparently was for the physicists and lab analytics people to create ...