Tyler Colvin suffers serious injury due to shattered maple bat

Ugh.

Wow, what a freak accident, pretty scary.

Horrible situation. What if it had hit him in the eye? They better step in and do something about these bats.

It was such a huge chunk of the bat but typical of the maple with a big point on the end. Ash seems to shatter into smaller pieces most of the time. He was a long way down the line too. Hopefully will be ok although they're saying he will be out the rest of the year.

That is too close. I saw the panic on his face in the dugout right after.

I know it will never happen, but would it not be ironic if the very bats that they have modified for NCAA could be the answer to "non-breakable" bats in the MLB?

Backstop-17,

That's something I guess I missed, but my son called the other day and said they got their bats and that they're pretty dead compared to the old aluminum bats. He did square one up in a scrimmage Friday but it went off the base of the wall instead of out. What did they do?

It is the new BBCOR standard NCAA instituted this next season.

Here is an entire thread on it:

Finally BBCOR

Wilson DeMarini rep at son's school says the home runs clearing 385 ft gap will now most often be caught. Said it takes 30 - 45 feet off of home run distance balls.

The standard is set to be just above wood bat, so as to keep wood bats legal in NCAA.

I remember getting aluminum at my high school in 1977 - 78. The old ones that hurt your hands in cold weather. I stuck with wood throughout high school. I wonder how many guys will choose to use wood in the NCAA ranks. Might as well in my opinion if aluminum gives no edge.

Backstop-17,

Thanks for the info. My sons team has played two scrimmages so far with no HRs, his triple and a few doubles being the only extra base hits. And his team always is a heavy hitting team. He said the coach and players did not like them. They are Demarini's also. But I just told him--the best true hitters will be the best hitters no matter what they use. Sorry for getting off the thread's topic. Back to the Colvin incident.

Weinhardt with the Tigers just sawed off Pierzynski CWS and the barrel of the bat was in Right Field.

MLB has been studying maple bats for a few years. The problem is that they have to get the players union on board with any recommendations. They have promised a joint report in 2011.

Certain Maple bats have alresdy been banned in the minors.

They could apply put a composite casing to the handle of the bat and leave the barrel exposed.

Or go the BBCOR bats....

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Maple has it's place...






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The worst bat injury still occurred with ash. Steve Yeager of the Dodgers was impaled in the throat by a broken bat while kneeling in the on deck circle. The protector devised to protect his throat when he came off the DL is now standard (and mandatory at some levels) baseball equipment.

Maple may shattered. But the bottom line is fluke stuff will happen. It's not like there's an epidemic of players being injured by shattering maple bats.

Anything poses a danger, but maybe there are solutions to minimize that danger.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/bl...broke?urn=mlb-270961

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Originally posted by TPM:
Anything poses a danger, but maybe there are solutions to minimize the danger.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/bl...broke?urn=mlb-270961

There you go, it is even more simpler that having the manufacturer put a composite casing on the throat/handle.

Perhaps it is time for MLB to step in and prevent the players from shaving down the bat handles.This is done to make the handles thinner and create more "whip" in the swing.

I thought that MLB had a rule against "doctoring" the bats