First thing in the morning, Josh Smith called his best man, Antoine Duplantis. And it wasn’t to relive wedding memories. Duplantis’ day job is as a sales rep for Marucci Sports, the company that makes Smith’s bats. Smith wanted as many details as he could get on what a torpedo bat could do for him.

In hitting a franchise-record nine home runs on March 29, including becoming the first team in MLB history to homer on the first three pitches they saw, the New York Yankees didn't merely torpedo the Milwaukee Brewers' team ERA.

Check out some of the home runs hit this season by players using torpedo bats.

It's another day and another record for the New York Yankees offense and the torpedo bats some of their players are using this year. New York faced the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday in its fourth game of the season and wasted no time making early noise with solo home runs from Jasson Domínguez in the third inning and Anthony Volpe in the fourth inning.

New torpedo bats have become all the rage in Major League Baseball and a Minnesota Twins slugger is trying them out.

New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695 feet on Saturday.

It’s the “torpedo bat.” The torpedo bat became the talk of baseball after the New York Yankees hit 15 home runs — including nine on Saturday — over three games. The bats, true to the name, feature a torpedo-like shape and are custom-made,

Baseball season is back, and it didn’t take long for the New York Yankees to start crushing records and dominating conversation. And at the center of it all? “Torpedo” bats.