Week One Observations

Dbacks20 · Mar 8, 2006 at 10:31 PM

BatMan said:

I am more or less new to TBR , but I have enjoyed reading the comments posted. I could not help but reply to the responses about wooden bats.

I agree that the metal bat industry is not going to change. Look at it this way, they have us hooked. We are willing to pay the enormous price for their product and as long as we are, they are not going to change.

Wooden bat manufactures are now jumping on board and retailing their product at unbelievable inflated prices. What is it now, Sam Bat is asking $129.00!!!!!!!! At Jupiter this year I saw several young men swinging his stick. In my own personal opinion, there is not a single wooden bat out there that is worth more than $65.00 to $70.00, and that would be a true pro-stock (Grade –1 structural) material. Only 8 to 10 % of all Northern White Ash harvested will make this grade. The percent is even lower for Sugar Maple, oh, I am sorry, they like to call it hard-rock maple. Of course we know where these small percentages of grade-1(pro-stock) will end up.

Even the suppliers see the $ signs. You will pay twice as much for raw material maple billets compared to that of ash billets. Without starting a debate, there is really very little difference in the two materials. It is not like comparing either one of them to hickory.

I have too been warned that high grade maple is becoming very difficult to find, which means the price goes up.

One more thought. When we do change to wooden bats we will no longer allow technology to dictate the competitive edge. It will return to knowing and playing the game the way it was intended to be played.
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I like this guy....welcome aboard.

baseballman123 · Mar 10, 2006 at 11:55 AM

Metal Bats

I believe wood bats should be used in High School baseball, but I do not see it happening. With the technology today, players can sit up there and hold the bat out on a 80mph pitcher and the ball will roll to the outfield-its getting quite ridiculous. I believe that if metal bats are going to continue to be used they should be "deadened." Plus, there are so many more advantages of using wood bats- the first major advantage would be that the good hitters will stand out and that hitting .300 in high school would be a very good average for the top hitters. Today in high school baseball, many kids are hitting over .500, I believe there were close to 40 players in NC that hit over .500 last year, now that is insane. Metal bats are also becoming more and more dangerous for pitchers-I believe Red Bear could comment on that one speaking of something that occurred a few years ago. But as I have said, I believe wood bats should be a part in high school baseball but I do not see it happening and I do not think anyone really does.

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