The folks at Axe Bats, a Baden Sports brand, say the round knob at the bottom of a baseball or fastpitch bat does nothing for you. In fact, it gets in your way, forcing players to choke up away from ...

Bat technology has had five years to catch up to the NCAA’s BBCOR standards, which were instituted for the 2011 college season to better balance performance and safety in bats. Previously, bat ...

The baseball bat is a brutish creation, a blunt instrument created to pummel a round ball. Never has anyone accused it of being some sort of technological marvel. It exists in almost the exact form it ...

In this Feb. 8, 2018, photo, Brent Weidenbach, director of product management for Axe Bat, poses for a photo holding one of his company's baseball bats in the batting cage at the company's warehouse ...

RENTON, Wash. (April 16, 2019) – Axe Bat and Boise State University today announced a multiyear training and development collaboration making Axe Bat the exclusive swing partner of the Broncos’ newly ...

As simple as a baseball bat might seem to be, people are forever tinkering with its design. Bats have gotten shorter and lighter, handles have gotten thinner; some bats have a hollowed-out cup at the ...

“Soon after I started hitting with the Axe Bat, I realized that the old bat had to go, because it was now obsolete.” – Damian “I love the way the Axe Bat feels, and regular round handles feel horrible ...

NEW YORK -- A few hours before the Red Sox took on the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, Victus sales representative Mike Sinclair stopped by the visitors' clubhouse to drop off one ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design of a ...

The traditional baseball bat’s characteristics are as universal as they are simple – a cylinder of wood, wide at the barrel and narrow at the handle, with a circular knob at the base. But for the ...

When Kris Bryant homered in the third inning of an April 26 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, it kicked off a stretch of five homers in 10 games. Such a tear isn’t unusual for Bryant; the 2016 MVP has ...