Sam wrote:If all bats have to perform to the same standard......whats the difference? The bat manufacturers tell us that they are all the same as wood bats when we ask about dumbing them down. But when they want to sell their own bats, all of a sudden they are telling us that their bat is hotter than the next guy's. what a load.
Speaking of loads - again with your BS about mfr's claiming wood-like bat performance in softball. That's the BBCOR standard, which is only in baseball.
http://www.justbats.com/bat-resource-guide/bbcor-certification/BBCOR (Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution) is something you've probably heard a lot about; it's the
standard currently governing adult baseball bats used in High School and Collegiate play. Rather than measuring the ratio of the ball exit speed to pitch and bat speeds, BBCOR measures the trampoline effect of the bat. In the past, when a pitched ball made contact with an alloy or composite bat, the barrel would flex inward ever so slightly, and the ball would retain some of its energy resulting in further hits. Wood baseball bats don't have as much "give" to them, and the ball loses much of its energy upon impact.
The BBCOR standard ensures that non-wood bats perform more comparably to wood bats in an attempt to level the playing field and improve player safety.