Yahoo Sports national MLB insider Russell Dorsey comments on the wide ‘overreaction’ to new bat technology being utilized throughout Major League Baseball.

Using a strikingly different model in which wood is moved lower down the barrel after the label and shapes the end a little like a bowling pin, the torpedo bat has become baseball’s latest

Max Muncy -- the Los Angeles Dodgers one, not the A's guy -- decided to try the now-famous (or infamous, as some feel) torpedo bat on Wednesday night in an eventual win over the Atlanta Braves.

Torpedo bats have taken the baseball world by storm — and some MLB pitchers are not happy about it. Phillies reliever Matt Strahm opened up about his disdain for the new bats through a post on X this week, arguing that pitchers should have a competitive advantage to counter them.

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Right now, players on 15 different teams are using torpedo bats. As far as we know, the Rockies are not one of them, but they will be. It's only a matter of time.

Torpedo bats are just the latest innovation in the design of baseball bats, some of which stuck, and others which ... did not.

Torpedo bats are just the beginning when it comes to the changes we'll see coming to bats in Major League Baseball. Keenan Long of LongBall Labs joined MLB Now on Thursday to discuss the new bats and what is next in the search for technology impacting offense in MLB.