"Torpedo" talk filled baseball airwaves on Monday with managers, players and physicists wanting to know more about the long-ball-launching rods that were all the buzz of opening week.

Some of the Bronx Bombers are using this altered bat design, courtesy of Aaron Leanhardt, a former University of Michigan physicist. Leanhardt spoke about the hottest new trend in baseball, and one of his former U of M colleagues spoke to TV5’s Chet Davis about the science behind it.