quote:Originally posted by Scorekeeper:
08dad, it doesn’t matter what generation the bats are, they all have to be tested and meet the requirements.
Of course it matters what generation the bats are - the more generations, the more time the engineers have had to figure out how to get around the standards.
Which is what I was trying to say with this statement:
quote:Originally posted by 08Dad:
The engineers at the various bat companies have now had 9 years to figure out how to make a bat that is compliant - and that is hotter than ever.
If the golf analogy doesn't work for you, how about emission control standards - remember the lovely cars of the early 1970s? Emissions controls degrade the performance of engines that were not designed to work with smog gear... now a couple of decades later, smog control equipment is just a minor annoyance rather than causing the car to be a real dog.
Baseball bats are hotter than ever - no I don't buy that every year is a huge improvement over the prior year - and no 08 son doesn't always have the latest model bat - but if you take a bat of today and compare it to a bat of 5 years ago, the new bat is "hotter". It still complies with the test - but the engineers have figured out how to make the bat comply with the test and still offer more performance when you are outside the strict parameters of what the test was designed for. And as the link you provided points out - the test does not reflect reality at either the college or the high school level...