MidloDad you make some good points. But maybe kids would learn how to play the game if we went to wood? You know hitting behind runners , learning to properly sac bunt , learning to hit the ball where it is pitched? If a kid hooks around an outside fastball and pulls it with metal not only will he not break his bat he might get a hit. Try this with wood and see what happens. Getting sawed off on the inside pitch with metal can produce a basehit and often does but what happens with wood? If kids hit with wood all the time you would see the runs produced gradually increase and you would see kids become better hitters over time. I for one believe the game of baseball was designed to incorporate moving runners with ground balls behind the runner at second with less than two outs , moving runners with the sac bunt etc etc. What we have now is gorilla ball with no sense of situational hitting. When a kid pays 100 bucks for a bat and goes in the cage and he learns to not pull the outside pitch because he doesnt want to have to ask for another bat. With metal there are no immediate consequences. In Jupiter and other WWBA events you have dominate pitching on just about every team. Great pitching is always going to dominate great hitters. I for one just believe the game is much better when played the way it was designed to be played. Metal bats are not realistic to the game. The slow rollers off the wood are challenging for the infielders , bunt defense , bunt offense , being solid in the cut game , throwing strikes and not allowing walks , moving runners it all becomes much more important with the wood. JMHO