Torpedo bats: The new hot topic of Major League Baseball

Since other sports were adapted to technological progress, popular opinion and cultural transformations, the baseball game was severe in traditions – one of which used the bats of bats.

But in 2025, they took a new form, literally – welcome to the “Torbido” obsession.

The baseball species have not changed largely throughout the history of sport. The wood has changed from ash to maple, but the shape was the same. The thick part of the bats, which reaches the basement bases in the main league 2.61 inches, always was at the end of the barrel. But the torpedo bats change this. The thicker part of the bats moves slightly to the middle, giving the bats a pin -like shape.

The goal of that? Everything about the sweet spot.

“He possesses all the data scientists who studied as the bats hit the players in the major championships,” said Court Einsworth, the former pioneer who participated in the founding of Maroushi Sports, and works as an executive. And they said, you do not use the last 3 to 4 inches of bats. You do not succeed there. Why do you not take some of this mass and move it to the multiplication area and expand the beating area?“

Marucci is one of the official MLB bats, along with Victus (bought MarucCi Victus in 2017). Together, they provide bats for the majority of players in MLB. These include Francisco Lindor, Fernero Tatis Junior and Faridy Freeman – some of the best of the league. After the New York Yanxiz team reached 13 years at home during two games during the opening weekend, with many of their players who use bats similar to the Torbid, the requests were flooded.

Francisco Lindor of New York Mettz against athletics in Sotter Health Park on April 13, 2025, in Sacramento, California. (Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images)

“We have about 55 % of the main league players who use our bats at the present time. I would like to say that about half of them had contacted last week asking a Torbidu model to strike them,” said Einsworth. “So I think you will see from about 8 % to 10 % of the torpedoes, then it is possible that 50 % of our players are using the torbids.”

Technology is not new – Lindor bats were used last season to a little bang. But after he runs a barrage of Yanxiz from the house and the star of the Cincinnati Reds El La Cruz using the bats for the first time and has seven RBis the next day, all the gossip was about the torpedo bats.

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“Now that I saw that Yanxiz achieved this success, whether it was a fake influence or not, or now you are looking at the data that says:” stand up, grow my sweet place, “said Einsworth. The multiplication area is increasing, perhaps I will try it. “

But the Torbid racket is not for everyone – some players tend to hit the ball near the end of the barrel. So, MarucCi calls on players to reach the Baton Rouge multiplication laboratory to obtain a motion capture technology and swing analysis, up to millimeter.

“We will see mainly to what they swing at the present time, and we will go down to the bottom as much as we can go in terms of balance and weight, then we will do the opposite,” said Mika Gibbs, BPL director. “[We’ll] Just start understanding how the body changes when these things occur and a kind of connection from there, improving the contact point on the bats, and all these things, and it mainly tries to build at the best possible bats. “

And its construction do. The MarucCi wooden bat is all-aerrican. Wood is obtained from a mill in Apalashia and sent to Patton Rouge. Once you get there, the bats will pass through nearly twenty hands of craftsmen before shipping it to Ballparks MLB. Senior players can expect to obtain a devoted racket in their hands within about a week.

Marucci Bats in the Tampa Bay Rays Dugut during the match against Texas Rangers in Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. (Tim Hitman / Getty Erch)

Brett Luxon, the company’s main craftsman, spent two years in the major championships and calls himself traditional. But he could not deny Torbid’s technique.

“I will surely strike the Torbid racket these days because I want more the barrel that flies through the air. Especially the way the archers start these days, as it reaches 100 miles per hour, and the curved ball is 95.” “It is like, give yourself a better chance.”

The owners of baseball make fun of the new bats, and they wonder about legally like this.

“There will always be people with new technology, regardless of sport,” said Gibbs. “We are always trying to improve performance and some people will not like it, and this is good. But I think this is what makes it fun.”

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While wooden bats deals with the main headlines, most maruci revenues come from youth sports. They are young bats, which are mostly formed of metal or complex materials.

Is the torpedo metal bats the next logical step? Yes, but not to the first level it may think.

“It is really difficult when you go to children because they need entire bats. They don’t attack the sweet spot every time, but when you get these first -class young players, you may be able to move it a little and get there,” said Einsworth. But he adds, “I think you will launch a Lorbid metal racket. We have now worked on for more than six months in our laboratory here.”

A possible problem with youth bats? Definitions. While the MarucCi bats are fully American, metal bats and all their equipment, which include gloves, shoes and clothes, are made outside. It is not just a problem with MarucCi – almost every sports company that makes its goods abroad. Marucci looks forward to the axis of some of its operations to the United States

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“We spent … more than 50 years in the United States to build factories abroad. So they were doing it for a long time,” said Einsworth. “Their factories are of the first degree. They make great products there. So I think for us, it will take some time until it takes the learning curve to speed. Then, of course, it costs more here. The work costs a little more here. So it will be an educational curve.

Kurt Ainsworth of San Francisco Giants against Los Angeles Dodger at Dodger Stadium on April 20, 2003, in Los Angeles. (Stephen Dan / Getty Emoz / Getty Pictures)

Although it is still largely unknown than what will pay exactly for the definitions, Ainsworth does not want to see the burden on consumers.

“We want to make sure that children play the game and this is the last thing we want to do is seeing children not playing,” said Einsworth. “We don’t want to pricing the market.”

But now, it is the torpedo bats that speak people. Since more bats make their way to clubs, time will determine whether it is just a heresy or if it is here to stay. Jeeps says that any difference, regardless of how small it is, will be enough to stay relevant.

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“We are talking about very small margins, and I would like to say, especially at the MLB level,” he said. “But for these men, this is everything. Like one additional ball, one other square ball can be the difference in that man who has a professional year and after his normal year.”

Ainsworth believes he is here to stay. He says he sees that the future of bats is very similar to golf clubs – you have a different club in your bag for each situation.

“I think you will see this does not become a heresy,” said Einsworth. “I think you will see this residence for some time, you will continue to develop, and you will be an ideal speculative for every player.”