Metal Baseball Bats Should Be Banned in

High School and CollegePresented by: Luke Jackson

America's Pastime

Baseball has been called "America's Pastime" since Major League Baseball was founded in the early 1920s.

Metal Baseball Bats Were Created

-Advantage to hitter

-Greater exit speeds

Metal Bat Technology Increased

Wood vs. Metal

-Solid barrels

-Little trampoline effect

-Center of mass cannot be changed

-Longevity

-Metal bats are hollow barrelled

-Made of aluminum

-Trampoline effect

-Center of mass

MLB Players Use Wood Bats

-Top physical condition

-Player strength

-Would cause injury

High School Players

-Increased playing level

-Training year round

-Bryce Harper

BESR

Ball

Exit

Speed

Ratio

Ratio of the speed of the pitch to the speed of the ball off the bat.

-The NCAA issued this certification in 2006

-It was an effort to make the game safer

Did not help increase safety

BBCOR

Batted

Ball

Coefficient

Of

Restitution

-Gauges how much energy is lost in the ball-bat collision

-Limits to .50

-Slightly higher than wood

BBCOR bats are breaking in

-Tested new bats

-Effects of use

-Increased trampoline effect

-Performed like old bats

Examples

Demarini CF4 Marucci Cat 5

Solution

-Switch back to wood bats

-Increases safety