New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. prepares to bat during the first inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, on March 30, in New York. Pamela Smith/The Associated Press ...

A bat with a wider barrel sometimes referred to as a torpedo bat sits next to a normal bat during the first inning of MLB baseball action against the Washington Nationals, in Toronto, Monday ...

A custom-made bat from Backyard Bats, a Windsor-based company, is Blue Jays’ superstar Vladimir Guerrero Jr.‘s newest toy at the ballpark. In 2004, in a backyard shed in Windsor, Ont., Paul LaMantia ...

It's due in part to Major League Baseball's opening weekend, when the New York Yankees clubbed a record number of home runs — and many players used the torpedo bat. The bat itself doesn't mean ...