The New York Yankees took the baseball world by storm with the newly designed torpedo bat last year, but the revolutionary design has ended up being no better than a standard bat for hitting the ball out of the park. In the first-ever laboratory experiments done on the bat, a research team determined that the torpedo bat and traditional bat perform equally well in hitting power with only a slight difference in the location of the bat’s sweet spot.
Lab tests find Yankees’ torpedo bat matches standard bat for power
