Why I would like to clip my son to the rope and run him up the flag pole

Welcome to the world of wood bat baseball.  My son played several wood bat tourneys thru his 14-16U years.  Basically we decided that the expensive bats aren't worth it...especially in the cage.  Wood is wood and you can only hit 60' in the cage no matter what bat you're using.  His 17U summer (when coaches were coming to watch) we did break down and buy him a more expensive $109 wood bat...that he only used during games.  It held up thru 4 weekends of wood tourneys.

LOL wood bats...my 2017 played 13u and 14u never broke one, first weekend of 15u broke one and that was it for the year. Start of 16u summer he breaks 2 in the first game...he still has 3 summer weekends of wood, a part time legion season and all fall which is mostly if not all wood. So I  negotiate a deal with a high quality local bat co. for 6 at 80 bucks each a 25% discount. He doesn't break another bat the rest of the year...LOL he has 3 in his car and 3 more in his bedroom just in case!!

https://www.maxbats.com/specia...s-3-pack-package/108

Do you have a hammer, small nails and tape? Your broken bats need surgery. We use the SSK cage bats - NON-BREAKABLE.

BOB

Waffles&icecream posted:

After ordering my son an expensive wood bat that comes with a 50 hit guarantee. Waiting over 6 weeks to get this lethal (his words) HR inducing (his words) wooden work of art. He bypasses the pile of bp bats in the corner of the garage, waits for me to run some errands and proceeds to join his buddies to go to the only opened outside batting cages in the area and hit in rainy 40 degree weather. 5 pitchs in and off the handle and presto..... Great looking fire material. I come home to a stone faced kid that has seen a lot more better days. Have you ever heard of this stuff ??? I'm beyond disbelief at his logic. My friends are getting quite a chuckle over this. Me...... I'm cutting down on coffee and taking up a less stressful activity like putting my hand in a basket of rattlesnakes. 

It's always funny when it happens to someone else! 

You are lucky if you can get it to BE firewood.  I have to look at a corner of broken wooden bats!  This one I broke at the 10u wooden bat tournament, I have to keep that one, this one, gesh Mom don't you remember when I got the in the park homerun with this one, we can't just throw it away, and this one I broke in the BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

THEY ARE FREAKING BROKEN PIECES OF WOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Son had a game at a minor league park last week..  I was standing in the gift shop to get warm. They had a barrel of broken bats they were selling...$ 20.00 each

to quote CACO3GIRL

"THEY ARE FREAKING BROKEN PIECES OF WOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Broken bat collection,,, Ideas!  Make a light out of the barreled wood.  you can buy a lamp kit at most DIY stores just gotta drill through the barrel.  For their car, you can cut the knob end of the bat for the stick shift knob.  For their hat rack, cut the knob end off at 90 degrees and make a hat rack with however many old bats they have.  Ceiling fan, you can use the knob for the pulling end.  With a collection of bats you could make a large wall clock either straight on the wall or on a large sheet of metal or wood, clock kits are easy to find.  If you only want to buy one wood bat, albeit more expensive, buy a BaumBat or mizuno Pro Maple wood bat with a composite handle.  Make sure they have BBCOR stamp.  If you buy the BaumBat, they are extrememly balance so you may want a drop 1 or 2 instead of a drop 3.

Welcome to the wood bat club.  My kids showcase team only hits with wood.  Doesn't who or where we are playing we use wood.  Over the years my kid has broken a few.  It's annoying when you invest in a more expensive bat only to throw it in the fire pit the week after you get it.   One bit of advice, make sure he is making contact with the ball with the label up.  The manufactures place the label on the weakest part of the bat and you want to make sure you are not contacting the ball on the label.  Run a google search on "bat label up" and you will find information.  Also, might want to consider "boning" the bat before use as well.  Most manufactures claim they bone the bats before shipping now a days, but doesn't hurt to do it again.  Boning the bat will press in the fibers and make it a little more dense.

 I love your sense of humor! been there, done that!

Took my daughter shopping a week or two ago and we stopped and bought my son the wood bat he'd been eyeing for weeks. She says "mom, didn't he get a wood bat last year?" "yes, it broke?" I answered.

"Well if he broke it, why are you buying him another one?" she asked.

The logic of a ballet dancer.

Joe; you need not "bone" a maple bat only ash. You can use a "coke bottle or a metal post at the backstop to bone the ash bat. Keep it clean and free of dust.

If a batter "feels" strong he may wish to turn the label toward the ground {Rod Carew], if he feels tired he will hit label up. It is mental, but it works.

Bob

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I used to get my son $75 bats for about $50 from a friend who owned a sporting goods store. My son typically broke two or three bats per summer.

He brought two bats to games. A teammate broke one. He broke one. He borrowed the most expensive bat in the rack. He broke a $150 bat.

My son asked for $150 to pay back his teammate. I told him he gets one new bat and $50 from me to pay back his teammate. I explained I didn't tell him to use a $150 bat. I suggested he chase down $50 from the teammate who broke his bat.

He had a 16u teammate known for breaking bats. No one would let him borrow bats. They named him Black & Decker for sawing off so many bats.

one place we played had a broken bat graveyard  with the broken bats shoved into the ground barrel up.  I think some of them had names and dates carved on them.

I guess other people do it too, found this pic.

joes87 posted:

One bit of advice, make sure he is making contact with the ball with the label up.  The manufactures place the label on the weakest part of the bat and you want to make sure you are not contacting the ball on the label.  Run a google search on "bat label up" and you will find information.  Also, might want to consider "boning" the bat before use as well.

Good advice for ash. Not necessary for maple, though google will find some strong opinions on this topic on both sides.

2018's first PG Showcase - broke his two wood bats on the first two pitches he sees in the first game, then broke a teammates bat in the second game. That after going through about 60 travel ball games with no problem. Good times. 

Same situation here,   son broke two bats at first wood bat showcase, one in each round of batting practice, broke 8 total last summer.  reinforced to him that he had some bad habits in his swing-   hoping this is fixed now!

I got so tired of son breaking bats, especially the more expensive ones he sometimes insisted on, I decided to repair those that were only cracked and and reinforced them.  Being a skilled woodworker (a hobby of mine) I glued the cracked bats together along with wood dowels I inserted through the cracked area.  Volah,  the bats were actually little strong and seemed to last a little longer, but eventually . . . they too got busted.

Truman posted:

I got so tired of son breaking bat, especially the more expensive one he sometimes insisted on, I decided to repair those that were only cracked and and reinforced them.  Being a skilled woodworker (a hobby of mine) I glued the cracked bats together along with wood dowels I inserted through the cracked area.  Volah,  the bats were actually little strong and seemed to last a little long, but eventually . . . they too got busted.

Is that legal?   And do you take orders ????? 

One of our Websters, Chris Flores,owns a bat company. OTW bat. Might want to check it out or ask for advice.