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MIAMI – Matt Mervis hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning, and the Miami Marlins beat the Washington Nationals 11-4 on ...

Meanwhile, the torpedo bats’ inventor — Miami Marlins’ field coordinator Aaron Leanhardt — says the development was a long time coming. “It’s always good to see the game of baseball ...

The latest baseball phenomenon has made its way to the Pacific Northwest. Several players and teams around the league have been testing out the new to ...

MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt has been credited with creating the torpedo bats. Leanhardt previously served as a hitting ...

The bats have a striking design in which wood is moved lower down the barrel and the end is shaped a little like a bowling ...

"To make it into a wood bat and maximize the ideal hitting area, they had to come up with this torpedo shape and reduce the ...

Aaron Leanhardt, a former Yankees front-office staffer who now works for the Miami Marlins, was credited as the one who developed the torpedo barrel to bring more mass to a bat’s sweet spot.