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Volpe’s relationship with Victus Sports, the bat company in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, has been public knowledge for years. He has swung their lumber since he was 13. When the Yankees looked for a ...

Before he was putting his intellect to use crafting a baseball bat that would allow the New York Yankees to tie home run records, Aaron Leanhardt spent years studying and teaching physics. Leanhardt ...

A number of Yankees are utilizing a novel bat shape — a seemingly inflated barrel that is thickest and heaviest where the player most frequently makes contact, then narrowing at the end. The ...

Aaron Leanhardt, the former Michigan physics professor who got his PhD at MIT and was part of the Yankees organization for six-and-a-half years, had a simple question he was trying to answer when ...

When Aaron Leanhardt was a graduate student in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was part of a research team that cooled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded in ...

In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is making waves, shaking up the sport with its unique design and unprecedented results. Dubbed the "torpedo bat," this innovative piece of ...

Atlanta Braves first baseman Matt Olson is a two-time All-Star and a two-time Silver Slugger. During a splendid 2023 season, he led all of baseball with 54 homers and 139 RBIs. He built his impressive ...

The New York Yankees love the home run ball. They’re called the Bronx Bombers for a reason. And they might have the answer to hitting even more: newly shaped bats. The Milwaukee Brewers are getting an ...