Jack Sink Tourney - Back to Wood Bats?

The Jack Sink Tournament seemed to be dominated by the public schools - a bunch of mercy rule games.

Do they need to go back to wood bats to help keep these games more competitive? It would at least keeps the scores closer...

Just wondering...

 

All wood bats do is speed up the game (might be a reason to go back to wood bats), but the biggest difference this year was the disparity of quality pitching this year between public and private schools. There are some very good one's in private (Frazier is outstanding), just not enough this year.

 

Wonder what the players think about wood bats?

I've read many posts about wood vs. metal. I wonder what the players think. I know some like the novelty of it....I know some don't care for them...I know some think it is a good measure of a hitter's true ability.

I liked the metal bats at the Jack Sink this year as it is a natural continuation of the way all of their other games are played. I remember last year (with wood bats) seeing some teams playing unusually shallow in the outfield and snagging some well struck balls that cleared the infield on a line that would have been clean singles normally, but the shallow playing outfielder picked them off as they judged the risk of giving up a long hit was minimal.

Speaking of blowouts, not all of them were public beating private...there was a 12-2 score, private over public.

 

No Offense Meant

Did not mean any offense...there were a lot of mercy rule games this year and it seemed there were a record number of homeruns with the composite bats that the colleges have outlawed now.

Mercy rule games are not as fun for anyone (winners or losers) and they limit the number of innings the boys get to play...

With all respect to Braves, the balls carry further and exit the bat faster with the fully broken in composite bats than wood or even non-composite metal. They don't do as well right out of the box in order to pass the BESR ratings, but when broken in they pick up in performance quite a bit...

IMHO, wood bats tend to limit the runs per game and make the games a little tighter when the schools that are having a down year play the bigger ones. I may also be all wet...always a possibility.

 

I think the Jack Sink blow-outs had more to do with the match-ups than the bats. They used metal/composite bats over at East Meck and ended up with 4 extra inning games and no 10 run rule games. When the teams are evenly matched, it doesn't really matter what bats you use.