Torpedo bat craze: Inside a Quebec factory churning out baseball’s newest trend [Video]

Batmaker Manuel Bouffard is busy sanding and sawing in Quebec City’s B45 Baseball factory, trying to keep up with the demand for the sport’s latest fad.

Standing over a machine that carves baseball bats from wooden cylinders in just two and a half minutes, Bouffard is making many more torpedo bats of late.

Unlike a regular bat, the torpedo was designed by a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) physicist to bring the most amount of wood or mass to the part of the bat where contact most often happens.

“It’s a big thing right now,” said Bouffard. “It’s new stuff, so obviously people want to …