Maple Bats

[AWA85]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-11-19-mlb-change-maple-bats_N.htm

Little update on the bat situation.

[10thMan]

Re: Maple Bats

Interesting Article, Thanks!

Like a few others, I wonder if the Maple Bats MLB collected will show up in the Marketplace???

Sean

[allstarsplus]

Re: Maple Bats

From the article, they interviewed Brian Hillerich, the great-grandson of Bud Hillerich, the founder of the company Hillerich & Bradsby, which makes the Louisville Slugger, said Major League Baseball is not likely to issue a ban of maple bats but it is going to explore specification changes to the models of bats being used.

"We've been told that they probably won't ban maple, that they will come up with some recommendations for changing what we do now," said Hillerich, professional bat production manager for the company, which has a 60% share of the MLB market.


One of the remedies to reduce the number of broken bats is to change the difference between the length and weight of a bat. According to MLB rules, bats can be no more than minus-3.5, which means the difference between the length in inches and weight in ounces cannot be greater than 3.5. "A 34-inch, 30.5-ounce bat is waiting to be broken in half," Hillerich said.

My question to Brian Hillerich, where is the "plug" for GUU? lol

Good article, good information, good job Brian.