Houston bat-maker, OTW Bat Co., makes high-performance baseball bats that are certified for use in the major leagues.

Originally conceived of by Leanhardt while working in the Yankees’ front office, the bowling-pin-shaped torpedo model eschews the typical characteristics of traditional bat designs. The fattest ...

Bat designs have been evolving for as long as baseball has been played, and are custom made for MLB players. Tater offers over 900 models. When Yogi Berra, long-retired, would visit the Yankees ...

people talking about bats and this bat design, and it just shows you the impact of what the Yankees can do when something happens there,” Ainsworth said. Ever since, phones have been ringing in ...

One high-ranking front-office person from an NL team told Yahoo Sports there's belief most teams would begin researching optimized bat design — with one caveat. “How easily accessible they are ...

Since then, MLB stars from Baltimore's Adley Rutschman to Tampa Bay's Yandy Diaz have used the bat design, which differs from traditional models because there is more wood around the label than ...

with nine of the homers coming from players using the bat design. But the development of the uniquely shaped piece of lumber — it looks more like a bowling pin than a traditional bat ...