{"id":237111,"date":"2026-05-14T02:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/torpedo-bats-may-shift-baseballs-sweet-spot-acoustic-analysis-shows"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:30:21","slug":"torpedo-bats-may-shift-baseballs-sweet-spot-acoustic-analysis-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/torpedo-bats-may-shift-baseballs-sweet-spot-acoustic-analysis-shows","title":{"rendered":"Torpedo bats may shift baseball\u2019s sweet spot, acoustic analysis shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/torpedo-bats-may-shift-baseballs-sweet-spot-acoustic-analysis-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the spring of 2025, baseball fans were treated to a surprise when the New York Yankees began the season with a unique style of bat. Termed \u201ctorpedo bats,\u201d these new designs tapered slightly toward the end, so the widest points of the bats were closer to the \u201csweet spot\u201d\u2014the optimal place to hit to send the ball flying. In theory, this shape was more ergonomic, giving the Yankees an advantage at the plate.<\/p>\n<p>But for all its fanfare, one question remains: Is the torpedo bat actually better?<\/p>\n<p>Dan Russell from Pennsylvania State University presented his acoustic analysis of torpedo bats at the <a href=\"https:\/\/acousticalsociety.org\/philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\">190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America<\/a>, running May 11\u201315.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2025, baseball fans were treated to a surprise when the New York Yankees began the season with a unique style of bat. Termed \u201ctorpedo bats,\u201d these new designs tapered slightly toward the end, so the widest points of the bats were closer to the \u201csweet spot\u201d\u2014the optimal place to hit to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}