Pine Tar on a bat Barrel??

[skinsfan0521]

Hi,

I'm not a baseball collector at all really, but I just got this bat in and there's a LOT of pine tar on the back side of the bat barrel. I didn't know that was allowed. I obviously knew it was allowed on the handle, but I thought there was a rule about how high it went? This was supposedly a GU bat in AA ball, so are their rules different than MLB?

I bought the bat from a dealer on eBay who claims to have gotten the bat in person and had it signed. It definitely shows really good game use (ink marks, spike marks, pine tar on the handle, cracked handle, etc), but I'm a little skeptical because of the pine tar on the barrel.

Anybody have any opinions?

Thanks a lot!!

-Brian