lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

[Roady]

Re: lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

I had never heard it called grains before. I always heard it called rings.

[TwinLakesPark]

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Lance Parrish 1984 LVS, 9 grains

[redoctober]

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Gwynn loved his bats. He said they were his most personal baseball items, even more personal than his glove. In 1994, the year he hit .394, he used one bat for most of the season, an astonishing feat given that bats are broken today more than ever (hitters use as small and as light a bat as possible, with a skinny handle and fat barrel; Pete Incaviglia once broke 144 bats in one season because he simply overpowered his own bats). Gwynn didn't use his favorite bat against really tough left-handed pitchers, such as Jeff Fassero, who might get the split-fingered fastball inside on him, and perhaps break his bat. "I called it 'Seven Grains of Pain' because it was a seven-grain bat," Gwynn said. "The next spring training, I was really struggling, so I brought that bat out again. And I broke it in practice taking BP against Rob Picciolo [the Padres' first-base coach]. I broke it on Field 7."

Great thread -- just checked several of the bats in my collection. My Gwynn bat is the lowest grain count at 9.

[Tay1038]

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2006 Joe Mauer - 10 grain

[grenda12]

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My Longoria World Series bat has like 10. I remember Tony Gwynn saying that anything under 15 grains he uses in games and anything above that he saves for BP. Something like that.

Ive just got 1 bat with 10

[shoremen44]

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lol... I had to go digging through all my bats... I was sure that with some of the old ones I have that I could come up with a really low number...

was surprised to see that the lowest a I have is 9 on a late '90's BJ Surhoff LS

[CampWest]

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I've only got a handful of non-maple bats... The lowest count I have is 11 on a Mark Grudzielanek Expos era Rawlings.

[GarkoCollector]

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I have a Garko J121 with 7 grains in it and a C243 with 9

[GoTigers]

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Barry Bonds and Ty Cobb are the lowest I've got, both 12-15 range.. Those low counts are something you can't find in the Maple bats.

[mr.miracle]

Re: lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

My Longoria World Series bat has like 10. I remember Tony Gwynn saying that anything under 15 grains he uses in games and anything above that he saves for BP. Something like that.

Gwynn loved his bats. He said they were his most personal baseball items, even more personal than his glove. In 1994, the year he hit .394, he used one bat for most of the season, an astonishing feat given that bats are broken today more than ever (hitters use as small and as light a bat as possible, with a skinny handle and fat barrel; Pete Incaviglia once broke 144 bats in one season because he simply overpowered his own bats). Gwynn didn't use his favorite bat against really tough left-handed pitchers, such as Jeff Fassero, who might get the split-fingered fastball inside on him, and perhaps break his bat. "I called it 'Seven Grains of Pain' because it was a seven-grain bat," Gwynn said. "The next spring training, I was really struggling, so I brought that bat out again. And I broke it in practice taking BP against Rob Picciolo [the Padres' first-base coach]. I broke it on Field 7."

[Rossi46]

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I have a Scott Rolen LS bat that has a very low grain count..... I believe it's about 7-8. I'll see if I can get a good picture of it.

[brianborsch]

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I actually had that bat too. That one was like 7 grains or so. I have since sold it. That was a solid bat.

BB

[mbrieve]

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I don't remember who had this bat, but I remember seeing pictures of a Magglio Ordonez Nokona bat with an all natural finish that had a ridiculously low grain count. I hope someone saved a picture...

[brianborsch]

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Thats the lowest grain count I have. I have seen some of the older vintage bats (from the early 1900's) with like 6 or 7 grain count. I am sure 5 is possible.

[brianborsch]

Re: lowest number of grains in your bat collection??

My Longoria World Series bat has like 10. I remember Tony Gwynn saying that anything under 15 grains he uses in games and anything above that he saves for BP. Something like that.