real green posted:Coaching for years, wood bats came out of the bags every so often. Most kids have one. They are fun and cheap. The kids that could hit, hit well with wood. The kids that couldn't hit couldn't hit with wood. I never once "exposed" a kids hitting flaws because he was swinging wood. The flaws were already there. I have not seen wood fix swing flaws.
Wood doesn't fix the flaws. But success with metal can blind players and their parents to flaws. I was to,d about a legend at a rival LL. I was told he was hitting balls to roof tops across the street (in rf). I pictured a sweet swing lefty. It turned out to be a big, strong (relative to LL) physical early bloomer righty with a swing like a rusty gate. His dad nicknamed him Meal Ticket. By high school the only meal ticket was the one the kid used for lunch.