Reply to "Virginia HB273: Interscholastic activities; exclusive use of wood baseball bats"

GTbaseball910+ posts

I need to ask all of you why you think HS players using wood bats is going to make for a "better" game? I also want to hear how going from metal to wood is going to make the game "safer". You guys are jumping on the nostalgic bandwagon. HS players swinging wood will produce a lot fewer hits making the game BORING not better. As for it being safer that is plain hype. Study after study has shown the highest mph of a ball coming off a wood bat to be 87mph. The highest for a metal bat is 94mph. Plain and simple 7mph is not going to make a difference. A line drive hit straight back at the pitcher at 87mph has the potential to do serious damage (ie: Mike Mussina). Finally if you think the average HS player is going to break three or fewer bats in a sesaon you are kidding yourselves. Cost of the wood bats will be an issue.

3/5/086:53 PM

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