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What’s the deal with baseball’s torpedo bats? We visited a top manufacturer in Baton Rouge to find out.
Baseball fans everywhere are talking about torpedo bats, the oddly-shaped bats giving hitters newfound strength. We visited ...
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A beginner’s guide to baseball analytics
We are barely 20 games into the 2025–2026 MLB season, yet we have already been bombarded with headlines that have begun ...
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A bat, a wish list, and a (computer) vision: two Hopkins students could revolutionize bat measuring for the Orioles, MLB, and beyond
Two Johns Hopkins University engineering students figured out how to use AI and computer vision to measure a baseball bat’s dimensions in a matter of seconds -- a development that could save the ...
The Baltimore Banner4d
The Orioles were at the forefront of the torpedo bat craze. Here’s how they work.
The Baltimore Orioles were “ahead of the curve” on the unique design, two sources with direct knowledge told The Baltimore ...
A short history of the tallest players in D.C. baseball lore
The Nationals will celebrate James Wood’s outsize stature with an oversize bobblehead giveaway at Tuesday and Wednesday’s ...