Will there be a significant offensive surge in baseball now that hitters across the league want their hands on the bats? Maybe, but not anytime soon.

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

For decades, baseball’s most famous struggle has remained unchanged: batters facing down fast-moving pitchers, trying to make solid contact with the ball.

What exactly is the torpedo bat? Houston will get an up-close look at MLB's newest innovation sooner than later.

Players are intrigued. Reds star Elly De La Cruz tried it Monday and crushed the ball. One bat-maker contends Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton’s seven-HR barrage in last year’s playoffs was with a torpedo. The early version of the backstory is amazing: An MIT physicist-turned-baseball coach, Aaron Leanhardt, made an observation:

The New York Yankees' new torpedo bats, developed by MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt who has also done work for NASA, have gone viral and sparked a fierce debate.

The torpedo bat has been the talk of Major League Baseball in the early going of this season after the Yankees belted nine home runs on Saturday, many of which came with the bat. There has been plenty of intrigue within the Twins’ clubhouse, too.

The New York Yankees have sent shockwaves through the baseball world for their use of torpedo bats. Aaron Leanhardt was the mastermind behind the new design, wh