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Broken Bats

BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
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Seems like there has been a lot of these this year
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  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    I was thinking that too. I saw a game recently and one of the broadcasters commented on what he thought was an increase in broken bats too and they said they thought it could be because a lot of batters have switched to different kinds of wood for their bats . . . like maple instead of ash.
  • GootGoot Posts: 3,496
    There were 4! broken bats at the Devil Rays game I went to the other day.
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    one alomst hit Pedroia last night running from first, he had to literally hit the deck!
  • cjb1977cjb1977 Posts: 69


    << <i>I was thinking that too. I saw a game recently and one of the broadcasters commented on what he thought was an increase in broken bats too and they said they thought it could be because a lot of batters have switched to different kinds of wood for their bats . . . like maple instead of ash. >>


    Two things were named as probable culprits, first the change in the wood used, which you noted and the increased shaving of the handles has reduced the amount of stress a bat can handle.
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