MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting analyst with the Yankees before he joined the Miami Marlins as a field coordinator in the offseason.

One of the great features of baseball is how often this old sport learns a new trick. They've been playing the game since the 1800s, yet every season brings an innovation to the forefront. Sometimes it's a completely new idea,

We’ll see if I end up using it or not,” Bregman said before the Red Sox’ game Wednesday night at Baltimore, after he’d had his first shot at hitting with the bat – which features both a larger barrel (to the MLB limit of 2.

Red Sox fan Dave Portnoy has begun a crusade against the torpedo bat trend popularized by the Yankees that's taking MLB by storm, just as an All-Star on his favorite team hinted that he was jumping on the bandwagon.