The Major League Baseball season is just underway and, while some athletes are making their major league debut, so is the usage of the ‘Torpedo’ bat.

This season, the Montgomery County company planned on cutting, sanding and sending around 120,000 baseball bats. However, with the partnership, Victus plans on making 150,000 bats next year.

Baseball bat manufacturers had little evidence to suggest a spike in sales was just around the corner when Major League Baseball’s newest season opened last week.

In the late 1990s, an Ottawa man changed bat technology with the creation of maple bats. Soon, almost every major leaguer wanted one.

This season, the Montgomery County company planned on cutting, sanding and sending around 120,000 baseball bats. However, with the partnership, Victus plans on making 150,000 bats next year.

If major leaguers continue to use the bats successfully — and the future generations of baseball catch on, too — these bats could become a staple of the game sooner than later.

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The Yankees with their torpedo bats had 15 home runs in their 3-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers, raising questions about the fairness of the bat's shape.

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