{"id":1906,"date":"2017-06-07T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T17:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maxbats.com\/blog\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2018-10-02T11:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T16:34:43","slug":"taping-your-wood-bat-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxbats.com\/blog\/taping-your-wood-bat-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Taping your wood bat barrel is not really necessary, depending on the wood."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen someone put athletic tape on the barrel of their wood bat? I bet you&#8217;ve either wondered why they do that, or you&#8217;ve followed suit and wrapped your wood bat barrel in white athletic tape. Yes?<\/p>\n<p>So, why is that a thing?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the answer.\u00a0 MLB players would wrap their ASH wood bat barrels for batting practice to help prevent the grains from flaking\/separating.\u00a0 Because of the grain structure of ASH, it was seen as a preventative measure to help the longevity of the wood bat.\u00a0 This was done for many years before Maple bats and Birch bats hit the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the important point however.\u00a0 Maple bats and Birch bats are much different than Ash bats.\u00a0 Maple bats and Birch bats are a closed grain wood, and will NOT flake like Ash (an open pore wood).\u00a0 Therefore, the more you hit with a Maple bat or a Birch bat, the grains compress more and more, whereas the more contact with an Ash bat will result in &#8220;wearing out the wood&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So do you need to wrap your wood bat barrel in athletic tape? What about a coaches fungo? The answer is no. It&#8217;s not necessary.\u00a0 But if you&#8217;re contemplating this, it&#8217;s really only going to benefit an Ash wood bat, and help prevent premature grain flaking and separation.\u00a0 Again, Maple bats and Birch bats aren&#8217;t going to flake like an Ash bat.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not going to hurt anything if you tape up the barrels of your Maple bat or Birch bat, but it&#8217;s not going to accomplish anything either.\u00a0 Some guys just like the look, and there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that.\u00a0 You gotta look the part, right?<\/p>\n<p>Check out the pro MaxBat coaches fungos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxbats.com\/shop\/bats\/custom\/fungo\/60\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Guaranteed to enable you to hit moon shots to your outfielders, over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen someone put athletic tape on the barrel of their wood bat? 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So, why is that a thing?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the answer.\u00a0 MLB players would wrap their ASH wood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,218,192],"tags":[203,201,199,208,237,238],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maple-bats","category-wood-bat","category-wood-bats","tag-ash-bats","tag-birch-bats","tag-maple-bats","tag-wood-bat","tag-wood-bats","tag-wooden-bat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taping your wood bat barrel is not really necessary, depending on the wood. - MaxBat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Have you ever seen a player tape the barrel of their wood bat? 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