I remember when the Orange Stealth first came out in 07, nobody really used them... but then they started getting popular a full year later when the next year's version had already come out (the all blue stealth). It took that long for people to realize that it literally took a full season of an entire team using this bat (THOUSANDS of hacks) to get it to enter "GOD MODE". But by that point, they were already somewhat rare to find. The one we use in our videos is almost 20 years old and it still feels like it needs thousands more break-in swings.
Surely there would be a way to simulate those swings... just with a pitching machine setup automated in some way, if you don't want to spend the hours in the cages yourself ;p
That's so crazy. I played HS baseball during the easton stealth comp era. It's so interesting that everyone knew those things were duds off the rack and you had to "break them in" like a glove, but I never knew why until today.
Man I was all about the EXO. If I used a stealth it was that blue one. A couple people had that orange stealth and you’re right that thing had no zing to it. Fast forward a year later, I came back to watch some friends that were still in HS and damn near the whole squad was using that orange stealth. Once you broke it in, it was butter coming off that barrel
Batters helmet came to baseball in 1919 , catcher headgear in 1877 , players body armor late 1990s ... were no one using them ? Were they sleeping on field ?
Before this video, I never understood why the NCAA allows metal bats if the MLB does not. After this video, I DEFINITELY don't understand why the NCAA allows metal mats if the MLB does not...
Doesn’t make any sense. You would think that they would want players to be used to wooden bats… instead of having to readjust due to many years of using juiced aluminum bats.
Cause the NCAA doesn't give a shit about sports other than football and men's basketball. Baseball doesn't make enough money for them to put nearly as much effort into it as they do for football and basketball.
My impression was that it was due to wooden bats being prone to breaking and that being considered riskier, certainly for catchers who get a faceful of splinters. But I could be mistaken.
@@Tinil0 the weight distribution is different. So even if they get similar results you'd think they'd want players to get used to swinging wooden bats anyways just to get the feel for it
That bat ruled my high school baseball team for 7 years, after it got banned someone drilled holes into and dressed it up like our mascot, for all I know it still goes to every game.
I'll never forget the switch to BBCOR in the middle of high school. All of us were absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of pop in them coming from swinging BESR the whole time until that point. But BBCOR advanced fast af, and a few years later the difference was hardly noticeable. Either that, or we just eventually forgot what the prime BESR models felt like and just got used to the BBCOR's
@tokeypokey yeah crying over kids getting killed and games playing slower than ever what a fucking accomplishment I wouldn't have played either with such bullshit changes, let athletes go at it with the best possible equipment bar none no excuses, bring back the fucking exciting bats 😂
I played in the late nineties and none of us wanted BBCCOR bc the few people we knew with them spent ridiculous amounts of money and most of them broke the first time they took a pitch on the fists. They'd crack in half like a wooden bat. I'll take my TPX any day of the week!
In my baseball program, one of our kids was killed by getting hit in the head. That was one of the pictures with the players and coaches carrying a casket. My coach was one of the guys carrying it and he held the kids hand all the way to the hospital. Forever 11
That’s horrible. I’m sorry for your loss. But even a standard ash -3 wood bat can produce exit velocity of 110 mph. Slowpitch bats can reach over 125mph velocity. It’s a dangerous game, you gotta pay attention and have quick instincts especially as an infielder.
I wish you'd used an actual composite bat sound instead of the aluminum "ding" each time the ball was hit with a composite bat. Anyone who's played with a composite bat instantly knows the unique thwack sound they make. Composite bats sound like an alien weapon being used.
@@RevAlSharptonz I watched the whole video and thumbed it up and commented, all of which are engagement that helps the channel. I don't think that's being petty. Furthermore, I felt that adding the "ding" sound effect was a lot of work and unnecessary. But considering the creator did take the time to add a "ding" to every clip, an effort that definitely took hours, I think the marginal increase it time and effort needed to selectively add one of two sound effects, depending on the bat, wouldn't be significant.
They're probably all broken now. Anything made of carbon degrades from repeated stress like the titan sub. They're ridiculous. It's like a spring board but more powerful. I got to play with one in highschool.
Now i understand what they mean when guys offer bat rolling services. they are using compression rollers to juice the composite bats by simulating seasons of use in a few hours/days
I had stealth orange and thought I was cool cuz I had the “college bat”. I thought it got worse over the years. Mad to find out it supposedly was getting better
DUDE, that shot at 0:53 with the Stealth/Voodoo/Catalyst/EXO brings back so many amazing memories.... what a time to be alive and playing ball. I'm 30 next year, and man, do I miss those days :(
AND THE TRITON AT 11:25 !!!!! My God!!! Growing up playing in the early 2000's and till about 2018, my dad had one of the black/grey and red TPX from the 90's with the HUGE barrels, as well as an Easton Reflex and an Easton Black Magic, and I will NEVER forget the first time I went out with him to take BP and used the TPX and Reflex when I had only ever swung a BESR up till then. The difference was insane. Still have them too haha. Just bring them out for BP once in a blue moon at the park to have fun.
I turned 31 a few months ago so I gamed with that orange stealth in high school. And the rest of my team had an assortment of those other bats, too, so I also got hit by that unexpected nostalgia wave. College ball was more fun, but in some ways it just didn't feel as good, ya know?
@@maxrosenbaum8502 said it perfectly. I preferred travel ball, specifically because our team was together from like 11 until college and even still in between college seasons. Was a legit family. And we absolutely whooped ass all around SoCal and Arizona/Vegas for many years haha. Good friend I've known since elementary school that was on our team, Tylor Megill, in the Met's starting rotation. His brother Trevor pitches on the Brewers too. One of the funniest kids I've ever met. Me and him would always keep the dugout loose and fun lol.
Someone should have also told him that an Xbox One controller is only like 20 more dollars than what he paid for his 2000s Logitech he pulled out of the junk drawer too
@@UndercoverNormie I like that he wanted to make it seem futuristic with no wires and one button on the wall to turn the system on but they still had a bucket for people to shit in at one end of the tube.
Something I'd think would be interesting to see - Hold a competition for the bat companies to just make the most extremely juiced bat possible. Something that would never be legal for games but just as an engineering challenge to see how far the tech can be pushed. when done let them compete with some selected hitters in a derby to see what kinds of distances or exit vel they could get out of the bats.
Me, a sword nerd, thought immediately about weight distribution on the bats. The more you have towards the handle, the far less you feel the actual weight.
I started playing little league in the 80’s from 3rd grade and played all the way to 97 when I finished my baseball career in High School. Played 3rd base most of those years and man the rocket shots and short hops I had to take coming off those bats was something I’ll never forget.
The amount of work put in to have the metal sound over every hit in this video is nuts. Especially when it focused on a composite bat but had aluminum sound effects overtop.
It's always funny when someone watches a video on YT and thinks it some kind of breakthrough in video technology. No, it's just another video with sounds edited in.
@@KittenFireDepartmenthe never said breakthrough he was just applauding the hard work that some people put into stuff.,. It's always funny when somebody tries to be a dick about somebody appreciating hard work of somebody else that's always funny, like a 🤡 funny ..
My dad was the coach of New Mexico State Baseball when they changed to BBCOR. There's a clip from his video on the slight difference between BBCOR and wood in there towards the end. Thank you for all the research done for this video.
As someone who is not really a baseball fan, I was totally unaware of this whole controversy. What struck me about this tale of technology altering the sport is how I actually experienced this as a hockey player with the evolution of the compositor hockey stick. One of the early and very expensive Easton sticks were lighter, had remarkable flexibility in the shaft and an explosive whipping actions. I had never had a particularly heavy shot - in part because I only weighed 170 lbs. But I had good balance and technique, and could produce a fast release. WELL... I tried this stick out for the first time in a scrimmage game and it positively made me giggle. The velocity of the shot was so improved I was afraid to shoot from inside the blue line in the warm up lest I hurt the goalie. I was kind of afraid because I hadn’t yet figured out how to control where the puck might go. In the scrimmage , I remember thinking I score from outside the blueline if I wanted to. But I was too worried about hurting someone in a friendly game. In fact I did score in a league game a couple weeks later with a shot near the boards, and outside the blue line that went top corner, and it clearly surprised the goalie.. I couldn’t believe it. I had never scored a goal from that distance . I will never forget one of the opponents beside me turn to me and say “man, that’s gotta be the stick.” I couldn’t stop laughing. That’s a longish segue to my main point. I never heard anyone raise legal issues about these sticks. God knows how much damage a puck can cause if a hard shot hits you. In the harms of the best shooters, I can only imagine how reluctant players would be to get in front of such shots. Hockey gear is good but not THAT good. A player could receive life changing injuries if hit in the right spot with a puck. I wonder why the danger of such technology never became an issue for the NHL or even minor hockey leagues all over considering this baseball bat legal precedent already established.
Nothing puts a smile on my face more than the memories of hitting the ball farther with my cheap lead pipe of a bat than the rich kids with the expensive bats lol
I remember when aluminum bats first came out when I was in little league in the mid 70's. Coach got me to use one and I could get hit's but, no one had batting gloves back then. The harmonic's coming back to your hands were as painful as being hit with a fast-moving leather belt, maybe worse really! We used to get whipped with belts back then so most of you likely won't understand what I'm talking about. I did play slow pitch softball in the 90's and early 2000's so I do understand how much they changed with better grips and such. If it wasn't for money, wood would still rule the game, and should.
The biggest thing about composite bats, like the orange Stealth, from a player's perspective was that they gave the juiced performance of the old metal bats of the 90s but didn't hurt your hands.
I used a 34/31 orange stealth that came from a prominent d2 school after the ban in a men’s league. I remember getting fooled on a curve ball and floating the bat over the plate almost one handed, I managed to barrel it and that ball went into the trees 350’ later. The catcher goes “dude you barely swung.” That bat was sick. Worth also had a carbon fiber bat called the 3d x that also got good after being abused. I remember using one and it sounded like swinging with a can of biscuits, but the ball went 330+ and would burn outfielders based on sound.
I can answer this for those wondering what it feels like to swing the stealth. I have an orange stealth, and it feels strange. It is very different from the newer bats. It is like a weird mix of an aluminum bat and a composite bat. It's stiffer than the new composite bats but definitely more flexible than just straight aluminum bats. What sets it apart from the newer bats is that it still has a lot of pop while maintaining durability, a light swing weight, and vibration dampening. If I were to compare it to new bats, i would say it is a mix between a usssa and a bbcor.
I remember getting drilled in the face pitching in high school in 2003. I was barely able to get my glove up to slightly deflect the ball. Back then people were talking about how dangerous the bats were getting. I can't imagine how much more crazy they are now. It's mind boggling that college still uses metal bats.
When I was in HS, we always had the latest bats Easton provided. The Stealth Comp actually caught on in 2006 and 2007. That silver and red one they released the first time around was just as good. The problem was they NEVER broke and they only got hotter the more swings you put on them. We did the total opposite of what people do with composite bats now. We'd have the entire team taking BP with two bats leading up to the season starting. We'd continue doing the same thing through out the season. I graduated 07, but we were given an orange Stealth Comp. I think the orange one actually released late in our season of 2007. We barely used it because the older Stealth Comp's we had were so much more broken in lol. Surprised I never got hurt playing both 3rd and 1st.
I'm not a baseball person (nor even a sports person by any means), but i randomly got recommended this video, and I found this topic quite interesting, especially since around the same time there was the super suit in competitive swimming that forced the IOC to ban them after numerous records were broken at the 2008 Beijing Olympics by swimmers wearing that suit
I only played a couple of seasons of Little League back in the early 2000s. I always wondered why we used metal bats, but pros didn't. I was told that they're banned in MLB because they hit the ball too far, but kids use them because it lets them hit further. That was my understanding as a child.
Same, i always thought metal bats hit harder than wood. Turns out it's possible to make a metal bat have similar bounce characteristics as wood? Probably wood bats are kept out of tradition and also make arms races harder.
seeing all these bat names is reviving so many little league memories.. i remember when composite bats started coming out including the orange stealth. Never had any idea it made this big of an impact! crazy. Excellent video!
This is why old heads think metal bats are juiced, but they dont realize that BBCOR bats are only producing exit velos about 1-2 mph higher than that same person swinging a wood bat. The standards are pretty good now.
I am an equipment manager for a division 1 program so I watch every single game of the season from the dugout and also test the bats before each game. I can tell you right now it’s unbelievable what these bats do. Our pitching sucked but our hitting was pretty good. We’d score 17 runs and lose. I can only think of a couple games all year where we lost a single digit pitching duel. One of our guys had a game with 10 RBIs. 3 400+ foot home runs. 2 grand slams and a 2 run home run. Our guys will regularly hit 440+ foot home runs in BP. Watching from the stands is one thing but when you’re right by the batters watching these balls fly right off the bat from the dugout, it’s amazing.
You must be amazed by hundreds of things each day if you’re using the word “amazing” in that context. That entire comment felt more like you were begging others to respond with “I want to be you!” Anyways, my sedan can travel at 70 mph. It’s cool when bystanders see me drive by, but to be sitting inside the car at 70 mph is so freaking amazing, you’ll feel like you have nothing else to live for! I’m better than you, you peasants!
@ lmao that was a good one, but I realize that was worded wrong. At our clubhouse equipment managers are managers and the manager is coach. I’m used to referring to us equipment managers as managers. Baseball team manager/coach def isn’t the one testing bats lol
i grew up in middle tennessee playing little league in the height of the composite bat era and one of the guys i played travel ball with had an uncle that worked at rawlings in their engineering department. we would get test sample bats before they were released to market, probably illegally, and some of those test bats we would get to use were insane. probably a miracle no one was injured looking back at it. shout out the 09 miken freak tho, that thing was an absolute monster.
I remember a lot of guys on my team using these. I had the EXO, loved that bat. A lot of guys used the Liquid Metal too which had insane amount of pop! Until they changed the bats to BBCOR
I remember using the Reflex bats in high school and even those made me glad that I was behind the plate and not in front of it most of the time. Some of the balls hit in that time period were absolute lasers (2000-2003). These were drop 3 bats and were bad enough lol. I remember the legends of the Dimarini softball bats and one of the beer league guys where I grew up was using them to hit absolute bombs in slow pitch softball. It was wild to see and I definitely would have been playing in shallow left field as a third baseman against him lol.
I find it funny that the graph at 19:30 kinda sums up the general interest in baseball I and people I know had over time too, it was cool in the mid 80s, late 90s and late 00's, none of my formerly baseball following friends has really cared since 2014 ish. Hopefully we're due for another hot bat resurgance to make it interesting again.
I don't play baseball (anymore really. Just some pickup stuff with my nephews) or even watch baseball that much but this channel is absolutely the best thing if you enjoy baseball in the slightest. Now I gotta brag to my older nephew about the bats we had back then and shame his BB core he was so confident about. Hahaha! I love them so much but he can be a punk!
i remember those bats. they became so light that it actually started to hurt when you made proper contact. that ping though, legendary. the m1 garand of sports.
Gold and Black Easton Reflex was insane as well. I coached Middle School like 10 years back and let my kids use it (there wasn’t any restrictions) and we had 4 kids hit HRs that year, and legit 330 down the line fields.
I actually have an EXO Grid that I got from a garage sale and it was amazing when I used it in practice (never played competitively). Nowadays it's in rough shape in my garage with the end of the barrel missing (I taped the bottom of a Powerade bottle on it) and the grip replaced with bandage wrapping
I remember playing elementary baseball and every single player had a metal bat. We all picked ours because of the design. It was like a pencil case, you wanted to be the one the coolest looking one. I couldnt imagine what would have happened if a kid rolled up with an orange stealth and just started dominating. We probably would have thought he was the next babe ruth.
I’ve always wondered why baseball players don’t wear any protective gear, apart from the batter and catcher ofc. If people just had helmets and face protection we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
Basically, Easton applied Swingweight; Where the distribution of mass on the bat influenced how heavy the bat was to swing. So if a bat was 30 inches and weighed 25 ounces, depending on where most of the mass was centered, it determined the swingweight. More mass towards the tip of the bat = Higher swingweight = More difficult to swing = More powerful More mass towards the handle = Less influence on swingweight = Easier to swing = Higher swing speeds. I play tennis, so I already figured out what Easton did when he said that the bats felt "heavier" when swung despite weighing "lighter." The governing body was measuring the static weight, which is how much the bat weighed stationary. So anyway you organize it, it will still weigh whatever it was listed as. When swung is where the Pandora's Box of Bats and Rackets was opened.
Guessing tennis rackets likely went through a lot of similar development cause I remember seeing metal and composite ones as a kid, plus they can mess with the wire too. The crazy part to me is tennis balls can actually carry more kinetic energy off a serve than a baseball off the bat despite weighing less than half as much. That said I’m pretty sure they can also absorb more energy on impact because there was research that a serve head on would most likely at worst cause a bad concussion. I guess it also helps that tennis balls are aimed down to begin with.
I was playing Travel Ball during this time, and during a USSSA showcase in AZ, 90% of hitters in the 1-5 slots were all using the Stealth or Exo. But that orange stealth was the only one everyone called a literal cheater bat. That thing was spooky af, thank god I was an outfielder. Buddy living life as a third baseman probably has PTSD from holding a hot corner against Highschool and college hitters swinging those bats. 1990-2012 bats went crazy. It has been cool to see BBCOR find ways to emulate that performance at a relatively safer level. My Highschool district banned those bats around 2010 due to a pitcher getting put in a coma from a comebacker.
OH NO Baseball is getting better and more exciting! NCAA and MLB better do something about this quick or else people might start liking baseball more!!
I played little league in NJ between like 1999 and 2003 and definitely remember the metal bats. Several of those models trigger core memories (just seeing them) even though I was very young at the time. Never knew they were "deadly", though!
As someone who is required to use BBCOR bats, but has a Orange Stealth, this is 100% accurate. I have the Rawling Icon BBCOR, fully composite, and fully broken in. The Orange Stealth blows it out. BBCOR bats are so strict nowadays, but for good reason. I dont wanna die while pitching (literally.)
I remember using it, it got better as you used it more. Some people were “rolling” this bat to give it even more pop. I’d say it is the best bat I used as a kid
It’s sad how many times I’m starting to see reputable people or channels make these kind of mistakes without people noticing and it’s only going to get worse as basic facts along with taking 2 min to double check your claim matter less and less
I was always partial to the B1 when I was younger but ended up having to start using B2s as the B1s I had bought had all broken and the B1s were getting harder to find. My dad was my biggest supporter and would look for these bats and find them slightly used for like 100-150 bucks in ebay bids that people were sleeping on. I think before state champs one year he bought me an extra b1 just in case cause he found one for like 90 bucks lol. Those bats were something else, I remember smashing a few homers in our youth league field like probably 280-290 feet when I was like 11 years old and I wasn't a big kid, probably like 3rd smallest on my team
When I was 12 years old in 1995 a white Louisville TPX bat came out in that bat seemed to be pretty special, whoever used it had great results in the first time I swung and I hit a home run and that happened to me my first home run. I was getting close to heading home runs already but the first game I use that bat my first at bat I hit a home run with it and hit all five of my home runs my 12-year-old here with it. I'll never forget the white Louisville TPX, a lot of people were using it and the one I was using was actually a 28 25 lol
What a fantastic video, they're always done so well. I remember those Black Magic and TPX bats like it was yesterday. We went from hitting the completely garbage 20 year old metal bags in little leagues, and someone bought a new one for the first player pitch year. It was the most amazing difference in the world. Even bad swings seemed to crush it.
I remember when all the companies switched to composite and the everyone was put at a drop 3 rule. We had a kid in our local that died from one of those bats. Worse part was that the kid that was hitting had been using a different bat all game and only hit a few slow grounders but came up to bat at the end of the game with a composite and absolutely drilled the third baseman.
I remember in about 1989 I asked my Dad why pros didn't use aluminum bats and he responded that they'd kill someone. It felt hyperbolic at the time but God bless him he was right as usual. I have to be clear I was a basketball player. Without a father at home I never really learned how to play baseball so I never did . Therefore my knowledge on this subject is second hand for those who vehemently disagree.
I grew up playing baseball in the 70's and 80's and softball in the 90's. I was a pitcher, ss, and 2b. I despised the metal bats for what they were doing to the game, but I bought them any way to keep up with everyone else. I wish they were never invented.
Baseball has never seemed as cool as it does right now with this bat tech. I think the league should def work it in somehow with like home run derby’s or something though. Your channel is cool I been enjoying it a lot :D
I remember when the Orange Stealth first came out in 07, nobody really used them... but then they started getting popular a full year later when the next year's version had already come out (the all blue stealth). It took that long for people to realize that it literally took a full season of an entire team using this bat (THOUSANDS of hacks) to get it to enter "GOD MODE". But by that point, they were already somewhat rare to find.
The one we use in our videos is almost 20 years old and it still feels like it needs thousands more break-in swings.
I watch your video
Ain’t no way they spawned up
Better get to swinging in your leisure time, get that thing to barry bonds tier.
Surely there would be a way to simulate those swings... just with a pitching machine setup automated in some way, if you don't want to spend the hours in the cages yourself ;p
was looking for you in the comments instantly lol
walking into a sporting goods store and saying- "I want the bat that killed that guy" is crazy
I know man. I would look that up online then go buy it
I saw your comment before finishing the video, and assumed you were being hyperbolic.
NOPE
no no, not "that guy." "that _kid_ " 😔
Tell me about it. They didn't even bother to use the proper code word for it. You don't ask for the bat that killed that kid, you ask for Lucille. 🥴
@@demonteddybear3510 it could also be a paraphrase and not a direct quote.
That's so crazy. I played HS baseball during the easton stealth comp era. It's so interesting that everyone knew those things were duds off the rack and you had to "break them in" like a glove, but I never knew why until today.
I remember we used to take all day batting practices all using the same 3 bats
Man I was all about the EXO. If I used a stealth it was that blue one. A couple people had that orange stealth and you’re right that thing had no zing to it. Fast forward a year later, I came back to watch some friends that were still in HS and damn near the whole squad was using that orange stealth. Once you broke it in, it was butter coming off that barrel
Batters helmet came to baseball in 1919 , catcher headgear in 1877 , players body armor late 1990s ... were no one using them ? Were they sleeping on field ?
everyone except the NCAA apparently. lol
Before this video, I never understood why the NCAA allows metal bats if the MLB does not. After this video, I DEFINITELY don't understand why the NCAA allows metal mats if the MLB does not...
Doesn’t make any sense.
You would think that they would want players to be used to wooden bats… instead of having to readjust due to many years of using juiced aluminum bats.
Cause the NCAA doesn't give a shit about sports other than football and men's basketball. Baseball doesn't make enough money for them to put nearly as much effort into it as they do for football and basketball.
My impression was that it was due to wooden bats being prone to breaking and that being considered riskier, certainly for catchers who get a faceful of splinters. But I could be mistaken.
I mean, as they show at the end, modern metal bats are basically the equivalent of wood anyway.
@@Tinil0 the weight distribution is different. So even if they get similar results you'd think they'd want players to get used to swinging wooden bats anyways just to get the feel for it
Considering Easton was trying to get around the certification process the name Orange Stealth seems appropriate
Surprised Syracuse didn't use it, assuming they fielded a baseball team
TDS is real.
@@sferrin2 Yup: Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show (TDS) on Mondays
@@SayAhh What a fall off.
@TEAMGETHELP seems legit to me.
That bat ruled my high school baseball team for 7 years, after it got banned someone drilled holes into and dressed it up like our mascot, for all I know it still goes to every game.
Bats weren't the only thing that were juiced in the 90's
True dat.
Ha ha
I love a good riddle! What else was juiced?!?!?! Tell me! Tell me!
I’m giddy with anticipation.
Imagine a game where juiced up bats and players could be allowed, only for one night: 100runs per team🎉😂
@@jorggamingcr409 ……at Coors Field 😂
I'll never forget the switch to BBCOR in the middle of high school. All of us were absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of pop in them coming from swinging BESR the whole time until that point. But BBCOR advanced fast af, and a few years later the difference was hardly noticeable. Either that, or we just eventually forgot what the prime BESR models felt like and just got used to the BBCOR's
The switch to bbcor was my junior year. None of us went to play college ball because we couldn't hit for shit
The worst bat I ever owned was first gen BBCOR omen had zero pop and had to use a wood bat the entire season
@tokeypokey yeah crying over kids getting killed and games playing slower than ever what a fucking accomplishment I wouldn't have played either with such bullshit changes, let athletes go at it with the best possible equipment bar none no excuses, bring back the fucking exciting bats 😂
Oh yeah, I remember it like it was yesterday. As someone who had no power, this was the worst lol.
I played in the late nineties and none of us wanted BBCCOR bc the few people we knew with them spent ridiculous amounts of money and most of them broke the first time they took a pitch on the fists. They'd crack in half like a wooden bat. I'll take my TPX any day of the week!
In my baseball program, one of our kids was killed by getting hit in the head. That was one of the pictures with the players and coaches carrying a casket. My coach was one of the guys carrying it and he held the kids hand all the way to the hospital. Forever 11
RIP. I got hit in the forehead when I was 10 by a line drive and my personality changed. I'm lucky I wasn't more seriously hurt.
Crazy u watch the channel
Was he a pitcher? A ball came back right at him?
That’s horrible. I’m sorry for your loss. But even a standard ash -3 wood bat can produce exit velocity of 110 mph. Slowpitch bats can reach over 125mph velocity. It’s a dangerous game, you gotta pay attention and have quick instincts especially as an infielder.
Was that Kelsey? It’s so sad! I still say prayers for him and his family
I wish you'd used an actual composite bat sound instead of the aluminum "ding" each time the ball was hit with a composite bat. Anyone who's played with a composite bat instantly knows the unique thwack sound they make. Composite bats sound like an alien weapon being used.
It's a video bro not a damn 100 million dollar budget film
Yes composite don’t ding like metal . They crack or sound like gun shot
Dude, just make your own video if you’re going to be that petty.
@@RevAlSharptonz I watched the whole video and thumbed it up and commented, all of which are engagement that helps the channel. I don't think that's being petty.
Furthermore, I felt that adding the "ding" sound effect was a lot of work and unnecessary.
But considering the creator did take the time to add a "ding" to every clip, an effort that definitely took hours, I think the marginal increase it time and effort needed to selectively add one of two sound effects, depending on the bat, wouldn't be significant.
@@RevAlSharptonz "make your own video 🤓🤓" shut up
Got to find one of these in the goodwill bins 😂
They sell em for like 4 bucks.
They're probably all broken now. Anything made of carbon degrades from repeated stress like the titan sub.
They're ridiculous. It's like a spring board but more powerful. I got to play with one in highschool.
You'll still probably only hit it 100 feet instead of 75
Good idea
@@JordanHarristhe baseball bat bros made a vid with one a couple years ago or so
Now i understand what they mean when guys offer bat rolling services. they are using compression rollers to juice the composite bats by simulating seasons of use in a few hours/days
Never heard of that but not surprised it exists. This whole video is pretty shocking in general though.
I remember when my kid was playing travel ball. This was common.
Or a rubber mallet and or a deadblow. 😊
growing up playing little league i just used whatever bat my dad bought me. turns out i was using black magics the entire time. he knew
How you do, you think it helped
I had stealth orange and thought I was cool cuz I had the “college bat”. I thought it got worse over the years. Mad to find out it supposedly was getting better
The orange Easton Stealth is my favorite home intruder weapon
Funny. I have that EXO one for that same purpose!
I got a Louisville Slugger Attack for that purpose
That’s messed up lol
At first I thought you meant used for breaking into a place but now I realize you meant self defense lol
I can already see the burglars drop everything screaming and hustling to the front door the second they see the bat.
"I want the bat that killed that guy" absolutely diabolical work
Crazy work
Not a guy, a kid
DUDE, that shot at 0:53 with the Stealth/Voodoo/Catalyst/EXO brings back so many amazing memories.... what a time to be alive and playing ball. I'm 30 next year, and man, do I miss those days :(
AND THE TRITON AT 11:25 !!!!! My God!!! Growing up playing in the early 2000's and till about 2018, my dad had one of the black/grey and red TPX from the 90's with the HUGE barrels, as well as an Easton Reflex and an Easton Black Magic, and I will NEVER forget the first time I went out with him to take BP and used the TPX and Reflex when I had only ever swung a BESR up till then. The difference was insane. Still have them too haha. Just bring them out for BP once in a blue moon at the park to have fun.
Same bro this vid brings all the nostalgia. Voodoo was my fav used that all through club and high school
@@JamesSchmidt713 Got me feeling ALL the nostalgia. Me and my Black Magic were INSEPERABLE coming up. Memories...
I turned 31 a few months ago so I gamed with that orange stealth in high school. And the rest of my team had an assortment of those other bats, too, so I also got hit by that unexpected nostalgia wave. College ball was more fun, but in some ways it just didn't feel as good, ya know?
@@maxrosenbaum8502 said it perfectly. I preferred travel ball, specifically because our team was together from like 11 until college and even still in between college seasons. Was a legit family. And we absolutely whooped ass all around SoCal and Arizona/Vegas for many years haha. Good friend I've known since elementary school that was on our team, Tylor Megill, in the Met's starting rotation. His brother Trevor pitches on the Brewers too. One of the funniest kids I've ever met. Me and him would always keep the dugout loose and fun lol.
Someone should have told Oceangate's CEO that composite materials have a tendency to "break in"
Someone should have also told him that an Xbox One controller is only like 20 more dollars than what he paid for his 2000s Logitech he pulled out of the junk drawer too
@@UndercoverNormie I like that he wanted to make it seem futuristic with no wires and one button on the wall to turn the system on but they still had a bucket for people to shit in at one end of the tube.
@@richardw3052 Lmao
“Where’s the bat that killed that guy?” I shouldn’t laugh at that but I did
The american spirit!
Lmao it's objectively hilarious
Watching a Baseball doesnt exist video moments after it comes out rather than watching it after months is legendary
What the fuck kind of sentence is this?
Me watching this video a month after it came out
I'm more impressed with the commentary that never ending a sentence with a period. But rather a!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something I'd think would be interesting to see - Hold a competition for the bat companies to just make the most extremely juiced bat possible. Something that would never be legal for games but just as an engineering challenge to see how far the tech can be pushed. when done let them compete with some selected hitters in a derby to see what kinds of distances or exit vel they could get out of the bats.
that sounds great
Another banger from my favorite channel about a sport I never watch
I know right! A banger from a channel I don’t watch, about a sport I dont watch
I mean the sport dosent even exist, so how could you watch it
The stealth was pretty hot, but the bats of the early 2000s were even hotter like the redline and reflex that were banned during my hs playing days
Yea i had a redline and air attack before that. I was wrecking shit at 155 lbs 😂
Air attack was a BEAST
Me, a sword nerd, thought immediately about weight distribution on the bats. The more you have towards the handle, the far less you feel the actual weight.
But too much weight towards the handle also means your swing won't have enough power, it's a fine balancing act.
@AirLancer Exactly, which is why most swords have their balancing point located near or just above the cross guard
@@purgeutopia8696 Meanwhile baseball bats are balanced like machetes.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 eh it's closer to war club
@@AirLancer and it's also why the best hitters know how to adjust the balance with their grip and adjusting their swing
0:44 guy wearing a Nyan cat shirt
I started playing little league in the 80’s from 3rd grade and played all the way to 97 when I finished my baseball career in High School. Played 3rd base most of those years and man the rocket shots and short hops I had to take coming off those bats was something I’ll never forget.
The amount of work put in to have the metal sound over every hit in this video is nuts. Especially when it focused on a composite bat but had aluminum sound effects overtop.
As an editor this probably took an hour max
@@user-wh2kv6qq3gYeah there's just some people who watch a video on YT and think it's a breath through in video technology.
It's always funny when someone watches a video on YT and thinks it some kind of breakthrough in video technology. No, it's just another video with sounds edited in.
@@KittenFireDepartmenthe never said breakthrough he was just applauding the hard work that some people put into stuff.,. It's always funny when somebody tries to be a dick about somebody appreciating hard work of somebody else that's always funny, like a 🤡 funny ..
My dad was the coach of New Mexico State Baseball when they changed to BBCOR. There's a clip from his video on the slight difference between BBCOR and wood in there towards the end. Thank you for all the research done for this video.
Go Aggies
Bro made really good baseball bats and thinks he’s Oppenheimer 😂
1:21 I had 4/6 of these bats throughout high school and college. Crazy to think we were swinging golden age aluminum back then😂
Totally unrelated but one day it will be crazy that pitchers ever went without some sort of head protection
As someone who is not really a baseball fan, I was totally unaware of this whole controversy. What struck me about this tale of technology altering the sport is how I actually experienced this as a hockey player with the evolution of the compositor hockey stick. One of the early and very expensive Easton sticks were lighter, had remarkable flexibility in the shaft and an explosive whipping actions.
I had never had a particularly heavy shot - in part because I only weighed 170 lbs. But I had good balance and technique, and could produce a fast release.
WELL... I tried this stick out for the first time in a scrimmage game and it positively made me giggle. The velocity of the shot was so improved I was afraid to shoot from inside the blue line in the warm up lest I hurt the goalie. I was kind of afraid because I hadn’t yet figured out how to control where the puck might go. In the scrimmage , I remember thinking I score from outside the blueline if I wanted to. But I was too worried about hurting someone in a friendly game.
In fact I did score in a league game a couple weeks later with a shot near the boards, and outside the blue line that went top corner, and it clearly surprised the goalie.. I couldn’t believe it. I had never scored a goal from that distance . I will never forget one of the opponents beside me turn to me and say “man, that’s gotta be the stick.” I couldn’t stop laughing.
That’s a longish segue to my main point. I never heard anyone raise legal issues about these sticks. God knows how much damage a puck can cause if a hard shot hits you. In the harms of the best shooters, I can only imagine how reluctant players would be to get in front of such shots. Hockey gear is good but not THAT good.
A player could receive life changing injuries if hit in the right spot with a puck. I wonder why the danger of such technology never became an issue for the NHL or even minor hockey leagues all over considering this baseball bat legal precedent already established.
Nothing puts a smile on my face more than the memories of hitting the ball farther with my cheap lead pipe of a bat than the rich kids with the expensive bats lol
I remember when aluminum bats first came out when I was in little league in the mid 70's. Coach got me to use one and I could get hit's but, no one had batting gloves back then. The harmonic's coming back to your hands were as painful as being hit with a fast-moving leather belt, maybe worse really! We used to get whipped with belts back then so most of you likely won't understand what I'm talking about. I did play slow pitch softball in the 90's and early 2000's so I do understand how much they changed with better grips and such. If it wasn't for money, wood would still rule the game, and should.
The biggest thing about composite bats, like the orange Stealth, from a player's perspective was that they gave the juiced performance of the old metal bats of the 90s but didn't hurt your hands.
I used a 34/31 orange stealth that came from a prominent d2 school after the ban in a men’s league. I remember getting fooled on a curve ball and floating the bat over the plate almost one handed, I managed to barrel it and that ball went into the trees 350’ later.
The catcher goes “dude you barely swung.” That bat was sick.
Worth also had a carbon fiber bat called the 3d x that also got good after being abused. I remember using one and it sounded like swinging with a can of biscuits, but the ball went 330+ and would burn outfielders based on sound.
Imagine Barry Bonds using an orange stealth lol
My god. The ball would have never landed
Just once, I'd like to see a Derby at Coors Field, no humidor, BESR bats. Let's see how far a human being can possibly hit a baseball.
@@js1031how far do you think? I’m going to guess 550 to 600 feet. What’s the MLB record? I don’t know
That ball would go mach 5
600 ft
Easton is literally just one of the best bat brands ever just because they aren’t scared to break the rules just to make a good bat.
I can answer this for those wondering what it feels like to swing the stealth. I have an orange stealth, and it feels strange. It is very different from the newer bats. It is like a weird mix of an aluminum bat and a composite bat. It's stiffer than the new composite bats but definitely more flexible than just straight aluminum bats. What sets it apart from the newer bats is that it still has a lot of pop while maintaining durability, a light swing weight, and vibration dampening. If I were to compare it to new bats, i would say it is a mix between a usssa and a bbcor.
as a hitter i loved these bats, as a pitcher they were unfair
7:30 I love when the music changes lol
You know things are going to get serious when that music drops
Do you know the song name?
Yeah for real would love a playlist of the songs
I remember getting drilled in the face pitching in high school in 2003. I was barely able to get my glove up to slightly deflect the ball. Back then people were talking about how dangerous the bats were getting. I can't imagine how much more crazy they are now. It's mind boggling that college still uses metal bats.
When I was in HS, we always had the latest bats Easton provided. The Stealth Comp actually caught on in 2006 and 2007. That silver and red one they released the first time around was just as good. The problem was they NEVER broke and they only got hotter the more swings you put on them. We did the total opposite of what people do with composite bats now. We'd have the entire team taking BP with two bats leading up to the season starting. We'd continue doing the same thing through out the season. I graduated 07, but we were given an orange Stealth Comp. I think the orange one actually released late in our season of 2007. We barely used it because the older Stealth Comp's we had were so much more broken in lol. Surprised I never got hurt playing both 3rd and 1st.
I'm not a baseball person (nor even a sports person by any means), but i randomly got recommended this video, and I found this topic quite interesting, especially since around the same time there was the super suit in competitive swimming that forced the IOC to ban them after numerous records were broken at the 2008 Beijing Olympics by swimmers wearing that suit
I only played a couple of seasons of Little League back in the early 2000s. I always wondered why we used metal bats, but pros didn't. I was told that they're banned in MLB because they hit the ball too far, but kids use them because it lets them hit further. That was my understanding as a child.
Same, i always thought metal bats hit harder than wood. Turns out it's possible to make a metal bat have similar bounce characteristics as wood? Probably wood bats are kept out of tradition and also make arms races harder.
@@Appletank8Yeah baseball players are superstitious af i doubt anybody wants to buck tradition
seeing all these bat names is reviving so many little league memories.. i remember when composite bats started coming out including the orange stealth. Never had any idea it made this big of an impact! crazy.
Excellent video!
This is why old heads think metal bats are juiced, but they dont realize that BBCOR bats are only producing exit velos about 1-2 mph higher than that same person swinging a wood bat. The standards are pretty good now.
I am an equipment manager for a division 1 program so I watch every single game of the season from the dugout and also test the bats before each game. I can tell you right now it’s unbelievable what these bats do. Our pitching sucked but our hitting was pretty good. We’d score 17 runs and lose. I can only think of a couple games all year where we lost a single digit pitching duel.
One of our guys had a game with 10 RBIs. 3 400+ foot home runs. 2 grand slams and a 2 run home run. Our guys will regularly hit 440+ foot home runs in BP.
Watching from the stands is one thing but when you’re right by the batters watching these balls fly right off the bat from the dugout, it’s amazing.
You must be amazed by hundreds of things each day if you’re using the word “amazing” in that context.
That entire comment felt more like you were begging others to respond with “I want to be you!”
Anyways, my sedan can travel at 70 mph. It’s cool when bystanders see me drive by, but to be sitting inside the car at 70 mph is so freaking amazing, you’ll feel like you have nothing else to live for! I’m better than you, you peasants!
@ yeah, im totally saying im better because I work a job that literally pays for my meal plan and housing. Living the dream!
/s
@RevAlSharptonz you're a weirdo
@@GeoJessewho you coach for? The Grand Canyon state hamburglers?
@ lmao that was a good one, but I realize that was worded wrong. At our clubhouse equipment managers are managers and the manager is coach. I’m used to referring to us equipment managers as managers.
Baseball team manager/coach def isn’t the one testing bats lol
Eric Sim should buy this bat and make a vid lmao
They have it on Momentum.
They have a bunch of banned bats in their inventory, if you watch momentum and Sim vids from around 2022 you ll see it being used
I don't know who this Eric Sim fellow is, but I definitely would like to see Shohei Bloatani swing one.
Every single video this man drops is a frickin banger. How is he not at like ten mil. If ur reading this get this man to ten mil
i grew up in middle tennessee playing little league in the height of the composite bat era and one of the guys i played travel ball with had an uncle that worked at rawlings in their engineering department. we would get test sample bats before they were released to market, probably illegally, and some of those test bats we would get to use were insane. probably a miracle no one was injured looking back at it.
shout out the 09 miken freak tho, that thing was an absolute monster.
I remember a lot of guys on my team using these. I had the EXO, loved that bat. A lot of guys used the Liquid Metal too which had insane amount of pop! Until they changed the bats to BBCOR
I remember using the Reflex bats in high school and even those made me glad that I was behind the plate and not in front of it most of the time. Some of the balls hit in that time period were absolute lasers (2000-2003). These were drop 3 bats and were bad enough lol.
I remember the legends of the Dimarini softball bats and one of the beer league guys where I grew up was using them to hit absolute bombs in slow pitch softball. It was wild to see and I definitely would have been playing in shallow left field as a third baseman against him lol.
The orange stealth is like the hulk, it keeps getting stronger
Yk it’s a good day when bde posts
I find it funny that the graph at 19:30 kinda sums up the general interest in baseball I and people I know had over time too, it was cool in the mid 80s, late 90s and late 00's, none of my formerly baseball following friends has really cared since 2014 ish. Hopefully we're due for another hot bat resurgance to make it interesting again.
My dad bought me one of these from a second hand sports store for my first year of kid pitch. Still have it, still bangs.
Easton legit created the bat that gets weapon XP and levels up into a monstrosity with repeated use. I kind of love it.
My day just got 10 times better after failing the f*ck out of a math test. 💀
"10 times better" Not sure we can trust your math there, though.
Math is for nerds
@@cs1458 Was about to comment 'no pun intended' but you beat me to it
Don't worry bro, many a great mind has had to repeat the 12th grade, maybe.
Focus on sports kid. You can always get your GED, or just tell employers you graduated. Trust me, they don’t call and check.
I don't play baseball (anymore really. Just some pickup stuff with my nephews) or even watch baseball that much but this channel is absolutely the best thing if you enjoy baseball in the slightest. Now I gotta brag to my older nephew about the bats we had back then and shame his BB core he was so confident about. Hahaha! I love them so much but he can be a punk!
i remember those bats. they became so light that it actually started to hurt when you made proper contact. that ping though, legendary. the m1 garand of sports.
Exactly why this is my favorite baseball RUclips channel. Keep crushing it man.
I want to see a era of Juiced Balls with Orange Stealth and steroids
I know nothing about baseball but after watching this I had know idea baseball was so metal no pun attended 😮
Gold and Black Easton Reflex was insane as well. I coached Middle School like 10 years back and let my kids use it (there wasn’t any restrictions) and we had 4 kids hit HRs that year, and legit 330 down the line fields.
0:19 These bats now cost $600
1:46 Adjusted for inflation they cost $586 when released
I actually have an EXO Grid that I got from a garage sale and it was amazing when I used it in practice (never played competitively). Nowadays it's in rough shape in my garage with the end of the barrel missing (I taped the bottom of a Powerade bottle on it) and the grip replaced with bandage wrapping
I’ll take it if you don’t want it
I remember playing elementary baseball and every single player had a metal bat. We all picked ours because of the design. It was like a pencil case, you wanted to be the one the coolest looking one. I couldnt imagine what would have happened if a kid rolled up with an orange stealth and just started dominating. We probably would have thought he was the next babe ruth.
yeah pretty much
I’ve always wondered why baseball players don’t wear any protective gear, apart from the batter and catcher ofc. If people just had helmets and face protection we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
yep. doesn’t make sense
Holy f the redline & reflex brought back crazy memories
The fact they sued and actually won is the wildest part of the story.
The orange stealth and the red stealth were goated in my early days of travel ball
Basically, Easton applied Swingweight; Where the distribution of mass on the bat influenced how heavy the bat was to swing. So if a bat was 30 inches and weighed 25 ounces, depending on where most of the mass was centered, it determined the swingweight.
More mass towards the tip of the bat = Higher swingweight = More difficult to swing = More powerful
More mass towards the handle = Less influence on swingweight = Easier to swing = Higher swing speeds.
I play tennis, so I already figured out what Easton did when he said that the bats felt "heavier" when swung despite weighing "lighter." The governing body was measuring the static weight, which is how much the bat weighed stationary. So anyway you organize it, it will still weigh whatever it was listed as. When swung is where the Pandora's Box of Bats and Rackets was opened.
Guessing tennis rackets likely went through a lot of similar development cause I remember seeing metal and composite ones as a kid, plus they can mess with the wire too. The crazy part to me is tennis balls can actually carry more kinetic energy off a serve than a baseball off the bat despite weighing less than half as much. That said I’m pretty sure they can also absorb more energy on impact because there was research that a serve head on would most likely at worst cause a bad concussion. I guess it also helps that tennis balls are aimed down to begin with.
I was playing Travel Ball during this time, and during a USSSA showcase in AZ, 90% of hitters in the 1-5 slots were all using the Stealth or Exo. But that orange stealth was the only one everyone called a literal cheater bat. That thing was spooky af, thank god I was an outfielder. Buddy living life as a third baseman probably has PTSD from holding a hot corner against Highschool and college hitters swinging those bats. 1990-2012 bats went crazy. It has been cool to see BBCOR find ways to emulate that performance at a relatively safer level.
My Highschool district banned those bats around 2010 due to a pitcher getting put in a coma from a comebacker.
OH NO Baseball is getting better and more exciting! NCAA and MLB better do something about this quick or else people might start liking baseball more!!
I played little league in NJ between like 1999 and 2003 and definitely remember the metal bats. Several of those models trigger core memories (just seeing them) even though I was very young at the time. Never knew they were "deadly", though!
As someone who is required to use BBCOR bats, but has a Orange Stealth, this is 100% accurate. I have the Rawling Icon BBCOR, fully composite, and fully broken in. The Orange Stealth blows it out. BBCOR bats are so strict nowadays, but for good reason. I dont wanna die while pitching (literally.)
HS pitcher? Have you ever had a line drive straight back at you?
@extragoogleaccount6061 Oh yeah, many
I remember using it, it got better as you used it more. Some people were “rolling” this bat to give it even more pop. I’d say it is the best bat I used as a kid
Fire edit! Teach me how!
7:16 Correction, it increased 200%. A 100% increase means you multiply by 2. A 200% increase you multiply by 3. 33 > 105 is a little over 200%
It’s sad how many times I’m starting to see reputable people or channels make these kind of mistakes without people noticing and it’s only going to get worse as basic facts along with taking 2 min to double check your claim matter less and less
Easton orange stealth, combat b2, Easton red omen, and the black b1 or b3 I forget were insane
I was always partial to the B1 when I was younger but ended up having to start using B2s as the B1s I had bought had all broken and the B1s were getting harder to find. My dad was my biggest supporter and would look for these bats and find them slightly used for like 100-150 bucks in ebay bids that people were sleeping on. I think before state champs one year he bought me an extra b1 just in case cause he found one for like 90 bucks lol. Those bats were something else, I remember smashing a few homers in our youth league field like probably 280-290 feet when I was like 11 years old and I wasn't a big kid, probably like 3rd smallest on my team
I wanna know what's possible if all the rules were thrown out. How far could someone hit a baseball if a bat was created with zero restrictions.
When I was 12 years old in 1995 a white Louisville TPX bat came out in that bat seemed to be pretty special, whoever used it had great results in the first time I swung and I hit a home run and that happened to me my first home run.
I was getting close to heading home runs already but the first game I use that bat my first at bat I hit a home run with it and hit all five of my home runs my 12-year-old here with it.
I'll never forget the white Louisville TPX, a lot of people were using it and the one I was using was actually a 28 25 lol
I loved my worth copperhead, my dad changed the letters on the end, he was good like that
To be fair, the voices calling to ban metal bats have been speaking since i was born in the 80s
Can we all take a moment to appreciate the genius behind making a baseball bat that over time and use becomes a juiced bat? 😲
It's always a good day when bde uploads
@6:45 Tbf... Oniel Cruze was like 23 and did this with wood. So, 20 years old and with metal sounds a little less crazy.
Crazy they created all these bats for a sport that doesn’t exist
What a fantastic video, they're always done so well. I remember those Black Magic and TPX bats like it was yesterday. We went from hitting the completely garbage 20 year old metal bags in little leagues, and someone bought a new one for the first player pitch year. It was the most amazing difference in the world. Even bad swings seemed to crush it.
Wait until he learns about the hype fire
I remember when all the companies switched to composite and the everyone was put at a drop 3 rule. We had a kid in our local that died from one of those bats. Worse part was that the kid that was hitting had been using a different bat all game and only hit a few slow grounders but came up to bat at the end of the game with a composite and absolutely drilled the third baseman.
the Exo, orange TPX Omaha and the Stealth were all filthy
1:52 mighty Goat❤
I remember in about 1989 I asked my Dad why pros didn't use aluminum bats and he responded that they'd kill someone. It felt hyperbolic at the time but God bless him he was right as usual. I have to be clear I was a basketball player. Without a father at home I never really learned how to play baseball so I never did . Therefore my knowledge on this subject is second hand for those who vehemently disagree.
I don't like sports at all but this video was really engaging. Quality content that anyone can enjoy is hard to come by, so good work!
I grew up playing baseball in the 70's and 80's and softball in the 90's. I was a pitcher, ss, and 2b. I despised the metal bats for what they were doing to the game, but I bought them any way to keep up with everyone else. I wish they were never invented.
Stealth, sv12, cf3 those were some good times
I still think highschool should use wood
some do, it's just hard af to be good at that age
@ It’s also hard to get scouted if a wood bat state because you’d be having pedestrian numbers compared to guys using metal bats.
They would need to lower the price significantly for that to even be a possibility, not many high schoolers can be buying 3+ bats a year
That’s because your no fun Mr knows nothing
@@RealBrizzNot to mention less skilled players are gonna kill more bats
Baseball has never seemed as cool as it does right now with this bat tech. I think the league should def work it in somehow with like home run derby’s or something though. Your channel is cool I been enjoying it a lot :D