Major League Baseball is buzzing over torpedo bats. Here's an inside look at the demand for the bats, and how one factory is trying to keep up.

Torpedo bats have recently become popular thanks to the Yankees, but Victus Sports in Pennsylvania said they've been working on them for a while.

Baseball is already seeing a new phenomenon this year -- torpedo bats. The tapered bats that focus weight to the sweet spot, potentially enabling bigger hits are made by King of Prussia-based Victus Sports.

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

Torpedo Bats on cards and Jackson Merrill has 8 different autograph variations in the latest edition of Above the Mantel

Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game. Days later, the calls and orders, and test drives -- from big leaguers to rec leaguers -- are humming inside Victus Sports.

On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including the online hysteria surrounding the ‘torpedo bats‘ in MLB.

Let's have some fun and embrace the overreaction week theme by examining early-season trends from the Yankees' start.