Basic GU Bat question: how many bats??

[bscott]

I'm curious to know just how many bats players use each season.

Obviously there is a wide range, but does anyone have any information about how many bats can really be considered "game used" from a certain player each season?

I ask, because I once heard that Jason Giambi said he goes through about 12-13 DOZEN bats each season, saying that he uses a thin-handled bat that cracks often. That's about 150 bats a season.

But what about Pujols, Jeter, A-Rod, Miguel Cabrera, Ryan Howard, Vladimir, Ichiro, etc??

Just curious...

-bscott.

[metsbats]

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070228&content_id=1820339&vkey=spt2007news&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy

Here's a link to a story about bats which I found on the Yankee MLB site.

Interesting to compare the number of bats players used to get in the old days (ex Mantle) verses the 100's of bats a player can go thru in a single season in these modern times.

David