While meant to simulate wood bats, regulation USA Baseball metal bats are more forgiving than wood for young players who might not connect with the ball on a bat's optimal "sweet spot." After ...

Torpedo bats, however, could come into play in the spring and summer when fields such as the Midland Baseball Complex in Batavia host youth and high school league teams that use wood bats.

Baseball bats have been largely unchanged throughout the sport's history. The wood has changed from ash ... most of Marucci’s revenue comes from youth sports. Namely, youth bats, which are ...

A metro Detroit-based custom baseball equipment maker has had ... The company specializes in making custom wood bats for youth to professional players as well as fully customized batting and ...

After nearly 150 years of professional baseball, the traditional wood baseball bat is getting a makeover, and the early returns have been eye-popping. A handful of New York Yankees players praised ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – “Torpedo bats” have recently been all the rage in Major League Baseball. The New York ... “To make it into a wood bat and maximize the ideal hitting area, they had to come ...

The long ball has become an integral part of modern college baseball ... with wooden bats, having played in wooden bat leagues growing up. "Obviously, summer ball is wood bat as well.

Baseball bats have been made out of hickory — a dense, heavy wood that helps explain why the bats sluggers used in the earlier days of the game weighed as much as Dustin Pedroia did — and out ...

If you’re a baseball fan ... Once the player chooses the right bat – maybe even a torpedo bat – construction begins. Marucci owns their own wood mill in Pennsylvania, so first, they ship ...

As expected, baseballs hit with the BPF 1.15 metal bats had higher exit speeds than the wood bats, since these metal bats were discontinued in youth leagues because of their performance advantage.