I think if recent NCAA Baseball Rules Committee proposal to place a moratorium on composite bats for the 2010 season goes through, High School players will be dropping composite bats like a bad habit, and then, soon after or with the NCAA, NFHS will follow suit and ban them as well... And then of course, Travel Ball players will be using only Alloy bats...
My guy uses a Rawlings Plasma Gold -8 now, and for the '09 Fall & 2010 seasons, because I picked up a few backups and longer lengths for him when I found out Rawlings was discontinuing the bat because their contract with Liquid Metal wasn't renewed...
Tried the Rawlings 5150 Alloy and it's too light in the -9.5 model, and it doesn't seem to have the "pop" of the Plasma. Waiting on a -5 version from Rawlings as a replacement for a dented Plasma that I recently sent back under warranty... So we'll reserve judgment for then...
Having said that, anybody use a -8 (-5 too) ALLOY bat that's as good as the Rawlings Plasma Gold...?
-Thanks.
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