Rawlings bats; stamped order number in knob question

[3arod13]

Pardon me if this has ben discussed before, but how do you veteran bat collectors feel about Rawlings bats with lower inventory numbers stamped into the knob?
I've been told by a couple of veteran collectors that order numbers ranging from 1 to about 200 are spring training bats, as that would be the first shipment of bats a player receives.
I have also heard conflicting info, that the order number denotes:

A -- An individual player's order.
OR
B-- A team's order number, for example if the Red Sox placed an order with Rawlings for several players at the same time, say Ortiz, Varitek, Nixon etc, they would all be the same order number.

So I guess I am asking this:

-- Do you guys feel/know that lower order numbers such as 1-200 are usually spring training bats?
-- Does an order number refer to an order from a player, OR an order placed by a team on behalf of several players?

Thanks.
Mike

For what it's worth, here is my Rawlings Arod bat:

460b = Model
149 = Batch Number
96 = Year of the bat 1996

Per the letter from Rawlings, 12 bats of this model were made for arod. It's a Home Run Bat, so it's a game used bat.

Hope this helps. Tony