{"id":1862,"date":"2016-04-19T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T22:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maxbats.com\/blog\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:04:31","slug":"people-think-wood-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxbats.com\/blog\/people-think-wood-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Think These Are Wood Bats?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across one of these “wood bats” the other day.<\/p>\n

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This is a popular “composite” bat that you’ll often see in somebody’s bat bag as a “just as good as a wood bat”.\u00a0 The DeMarini S-series<\/strong> \u201cwood\u201d baseball bat.\u00a0 A kid was using the bat in the hitting facility I work\u00a0at\u00a0and quite frankly, the bat irritated me.\u00a0 I looked at it and thought \u2013 How can anybody look at this thing and think it is a wood bat?\u00a0 After having it gnaw at me for about an hour and spending some time bitching to a few people who would listen, I decided to actually do some research and see if I was getting worked up over nothing.\u00a0 So I used the google button and made a few calls to some people in the industry that I know and came up with some things I will share with you momentarily.\u00a0 But before I do that and possibly ruffle a few feathers, I want to relate some town ball history that I happened to be present for that will illuminate why this bat vexes me so.<\/p>\n

Wood Bats & Minnesota Town Ball<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a factoid that I have discovered is not known by all town ball players.\u00a0 Minnesota town ball, regardless of class, used to be an aluminum bat league.\u00a0 That\u2019s correct, it was not always a wood bat league.\u00a0 For those of us who were there this is a \u201cwell duh\u201d type statement.\u00a0 But I have found that many younger players are unaware of this.\u00a0 It is, however, quite true.\u00a0 Prior to 2002 town ball players used aluminum bats.\u00a0 So how did it change?\u00a0 Well, that is an interesting story in itself.<\/p>\n

In the late 90\u2019s aluminum bats went through a transformation.\u00a0 Bat makers started using new technologies that led to lighter bats that produced a \u201ctrampoline effect\u201d that caused the ball to pretty much explode off the barrel like a .50 caliber bullet.\u00a0 Consequently, balls started flying out of ballparks.\u00a0 Even guys who were little or previously popless started regularly hitting jacks.\u00a0 Five of the top ten highest\u00a0single season collegiate home run records and highest team totals occurred between 1997-1999.\u00a0 And\u00a0seven of the top ten highest team home run totals\u00a0per game happened between 1997-2002.<\/p>\n

I played my collegiate years right before this bat explosion.\u00a0 During\u00a0this \u201cNegative Five Era\u201d as it came to be called,\u00a0I was playing Independent pro ball using a wood bat.\u00a0 When I was released (for being too handsome, not because I sucked) I came back to town ball and was amazed.\u00a0 There were guys with 20 jacks all over the place.\u00a0 Dude, Minnetonka hit 93 bombs in 1998.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure like 10 of them were hit with one hand and\u00a0floated over my head in left field at Parade Stadium in the state championship game.\u00a0 The truth is, it wasn\u2019t really that fun.\u00a0 When someone hit a home run people barely noticed, and if a batter laced a double nobody even looked up.<\/p>\n

Worse than that, it seemed to be getting dangerous.\u00a0 Pitchers were seriously in harms way.\u00a0 I witnessed several hurlers get absolutely torched.\u00a0 I was catching a game when Tonka legend Tony Richards took a ball about an inch off the ground and a foot outside past our second baseman before he could even move.\u00a0 It was actually scary to throw to some guys.<\/p>\n

So our team decided we didn\u2019t want anyone\u2019s blood on our hands and switched to wood bats in 1999.\u00a0 I know that sounds cocky, but we had one of our own pitchers smoked in the dome and it came a fraction of an inch from ending his career (he really had<\/em> a career too as he ended up being drafted by the White Sox).\u00a0 Plus we had some big boppers of our own.\u00a0 At 6\u20193\u2033 and 260 lbs of shred town ball hall of famer Chris Johnson had a legitimate chance of murderizing someone, or at least putting them on a liquid diet for a long time.\u00a0 Anyway, we played the entire 1999 season with wood bats and finished 2nd to Minnetonka in the class A\u00a0state tourney that year.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t on a crusade to get everyone to use wood.\u00a0 We just found out it was more fun.\u00a0 It was real baseball and we had to work hard to compete.<\/p>\n

The next year Wintz trucking, who had used wood for part of the previous year, went to wood all year long (at least I think they did).\u00a0 Then, finally everyone changed over in 2002.\u00a0 After playing with wood I will never go back to aluminum (or whatever passes for aluminum these days) again.\u00a0 Wood totally leveled the playing field.<\/p>\n

Which\u00a0brings me to this thing again\u2026<\/p>\n

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Here is why I don\u2019t like it.\u00a0 It is just like those stupid juiced aluminum bats.\u00a0 It is cheating.\u00a0 Allow me to illustrate why.<\/p>\n

When I was playing Indy ball we had a dude who corked a bat.\u00a0 He had a hole bored in the center and filled it with cork.\u00a0 Then he plugged the hole and sanded it down.\u00a0 We all took BP with it, crushed some homers\u00a0and agreed it was the coolest thing ever.\u00a0 My team mate did not use it in a game however.\u00a0 I guess he read this rule:<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball Rule 6.06(d)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A batter is out for illegal action when he uses or attempts to use a bat that, in the umpire\u2019s judgment, has been altered or tampered with in such a way to improve the distance factor or cause an unusual reaction on the baseball.<\/strong><\/p>\n

and he thought \u201cyeah, that\u2019s cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is a cross section of a corked bat\u2026<\/p>\n

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Here is a cross section of a DeMarini\u2026<\/p>\n

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Yes, you are seeing that right.\u00a0 A DeMarini \u201cwood\u201d bat is not really a wood bat.\u00a0 It is mostly plastic.\u00a0 It looks a lot like a corked bat.\u00a0 An awful lot.\u00a0 But you probably already knew that.\u00a0 the question is, so what?<\/p>\n

The answer is, the bat gives the hitter an advantage.\u00a0 The bat is designed to be lighter and worse than that, the handle is made out of carbon fiber material.\u00a0 The same crap they make hockey sticks out of these days.\u00a0 It flexes and then snaps back faster than a solid wood bat does.\u00a0 Here is some actual copy from a DeMarini ad\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThis maple\/composite design provides players with an ever so slight amount of flex that is not typically found in a maple\u2013\u2010only wood bat.\u00a0 This design also produces a slightly end\u2013\u2010loaded feel and a larger sweet spot for more trampoline and more power than your conventional wood bats.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is that darn word again \u201ctrampoline\u201d.\u00a0 By this companies own admission, their \u201cwood\u201d bat DOES <\/em>NOT<\/em> even perform like a solid wood bat!<\/p>\n

So here comes the argument \u2013 Yeah but they don\u2019t break.\u00a0 It is true that they break far less often, but they are not indestructible.\u00a0 They now cost about $200.\u00a0 There are several reputable companies that I am aware of that offer discounts to town ball players and make great wood bats.\u00a0 You can get 3-4 bats from these companies for around the same price.\u00a0 Will it be a little more expensive to swing real wood \u2013 perhaps for some guys it will (depending how bad your swing is).\u00a0 Well, it was an adjustment to swing wood when we went to it in the first place.\u00a0 Nobody complained then.\u00a0 Because it was more fun and made the game even.<\/p>\n

All of this leads me to my point, these bats should be banned from town ball, or any league or game that is dubbed wood bat baseball.\u00a0 The bat race that we broke free from in 2002 is just starting all over again.\u00a0 Lets nip it in the bud and swing real wood bats.\u00a0 The Roy Hobbs organization has already banned these bats stating that they are no different (and even worse) than a corked bat.\u00a0 It is embarrassing to me that the state that went to wood bats first has to take its cues from another organization.\u00a0 I really don\u2019t know where to start, somebody take it from here\u2026and then maybe the Lorax and all of his friends will come back again.<\/p>\n

– Matt Paulsen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0 MaxBat Blog Contributor<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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