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@adbono posted:
Good question Bob. I’m sure they would like to do that. However there would be heavy resistance from the manufacturers of metal bats. And those are big companies that have a lot of power and influence. Each metal bat costs 3x to 4x compared to wood. That’s an awful lot of money at stake. Not to mention the sunk cost in the technology to make metal bats. So I don’t see it happening.

It really just comes down to bat makers are willing to pay NCAA programs to use their metal bats but wouldn't be willing to do that for wood bats. NCAA programs using their metal bats is advertising to the much larger population of players at the lower levels of amateur baseball who are paying full retail for metal bats.

But by the back of the napkin math, MLB could fully equip P5 teams with wood bats for less than $5 million/year, so not very much at MLB scale. And MLB owns Rawlings/Easton so could get them on board if needed.

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