There are always plenty of unknowns to start any new season, and entering the 2025 Major League Baseball season, one of the biggest ones was the park factors relating to the Oakland Athletics playing their home games in Sacramento.

But all the attention is on torpedo bats, the differently shaped bat that has helped power the Yankees' historic offensive start. On the torpedo bats, the barrel is closer to the label and therefore closer to the batters' hands.

The torpedo bat has taken the baseball world by storm. What are the players and experts saying about this new piece of hitting technology?

Prior to Tuesday’s games, DraftKings introduced markets for all players using torpedo bats to hit home runs, with Elly De La Cruz, Francisco Lindor, and Jazz Chisholm Jr. among the stars wielding the new lumber and with a market to offer.

But let’s also not rule out — if the hitters can use “accessories” (talc, sticky stuff) to assist with their grip in at-bats, why can’t pitchers?

Torpedo bats have been the talk of baseball season so far after a record-setting home-run performance by the New York Yankees during Major League Baseball’s opening weekend and, closer to home ...

The nuance? The "torpedo" bat, used widely by Yankees hitters to open the year. Torpedo bats actually aren't completely brand-new. They haven't been widely utilized across MLB since their initial ...