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  • Freelance
    Banned
    • Jul 2002
    • 7021

    #1

    What's with all the broken bats?

    Have you ever seen so many broken bats in a major league season?

    I remember when, about once a week, someone would get their bat broken in half on a swing. It was a rare occurrence and usually made Sportscenter.

    Now, it happens like 5 or 6 times a game, plus many other at-bats where a splinter flies off the barrel or you hear the bat crack.

    First, this is getting dangerous. These things are flying into the stands or out to the infielders on the fly on a regular basis. Second, is the league looking into what type of bats they're using, or how much they're shaving them down?
  • Chaos81
    Hall Of Fame
    • Mar 2004
    • 17150

    #2
    Re: What's with all the broken bats?

    Originally posted by Freelance
    Have you ever seen so many broken bats in a major league season?
    Yes, last season.

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    • Marino
      Moderator
      • Jan 2008
      • 18113

      #3
      Re: What's with all the broken bats?

      And you will see a lot next year until they go away from maple bats. But of course it will take serious injury before anything is done before that.

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      • Freelance
        Banned
        • Jul 2002
        • 7021

        #4
        Re: What's with all the broken bats?

        Originally posted by Marino
        And you will see a lot next year until they go away from maple bats. But of course it will take serious injury before anything is done before that.
        Yep, not until the first person is impaled.

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        • av7
          Hall Of Fame
          • Dec 2007
          • 11408

          #5
          Re: What's with all the broken bats?

          Tonight the broadcast from the Rockies said broken bats went down 30% from last year (I believe they cited a report, didn't fully hear)

          I don't see it very often with my team and the team playing vs Rockies.
          Aaron
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          • Blzer
            Resident film pundit
            • Mar 2004
            • 42520

            #6
            Re: What's with all the broken bats?

            Players have forgotten how to swing correctly and make solid contact. With small ballparks like CBP, I haven't ever seen so many "end of the bat" home runs before in my life until Pete Feliz and Raul Ibañez showed it was the new thing.

            Until players stop caring so much about hitting home runs, they will continue to be inferior hitters and will proceed to break their bats often.
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            • jake44np
              Post Like a Champion!
              • Jul 2002
              • 9563

              #7
              Re: What's with all the broken bats?

              Originally posted by Freelance
              Have you ever seen so many broken bats in a major league season?

              I remember when, about once a week, someone would get their bat broken in half on a swing. It was a rare occurrence and usually made Sportscenter.

              Now, it happens like 5 or 6 times a game, plus many other at-bats where a splinter flies off the barrel or you hear the bat crack.

              First, this is getting dangerous. These things are flying into the stands or out to the infielders on the fly on a regular basis. Second, is the league looking into what type of bats they're using, or how much they're shaving them down?
              Acually broken bats are way down compared to last year.
              I dont know what games you are watching but there is no were near 5 to 6 bats broken each game.
              In your defense you are right compared to 25 years ago there are more broken bats now.
              The reason is pretty simple, maple bats. Players love them as they have a sweeter sweet spot. The down side of them is if you dont hit the sweet spot they break.
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              • CMH
                Making you famous
                • Oct 2002
                • 26203

                #8
                Re: What's with all the broken bats?

                Maple bats are horrible anyway. I can't stand the weight and feeling. I'm all ash all the way.
                "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

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                • fugazi
                  MVP
                  • Apr 2003
                  • 3749

                  #9
                  Re: What's with all the broken bats?

                  Am I the only one that remembers reading about maples when they were first gaining real popularity (2000-2003, maybe)?

                  There was an article--rife with comments from players--that was explicit in saying that Maple was more durable...that a player like Bonds would regularly use the same bat for several games, and would need fewer bats in general...while the traditional ash bats were always required in greater supply because they broke so much more frequently.

                  Some have argued that manufacturers are less selective in how they deal with wood and grain.

                  I think there is something to be said for stronger hitters with higher bat speed, thin handles, and harder baseballs (they are, aren't they?). I would also think some dynamic is at work that leads more hitters to be jammed given how closely they approach the plate in today's game.
                  Australian Rules Football...just sayin'

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                  • Blzer
                    Resident film pundit
                    • Mar 2004
                    • 42520

                    #10
                    Re: What's with all the broken bats?

                    Originally posted by fugazi
                    There was an article--rife with comments from players--that was explicit in saying that Maple was more durable...that a player like Bonds would regularly use the same bat for several games, and would need fewer bats in general...while the traditional ash bats were always required in greater supply because they broke so much more frequently.
                    Again, the bat was irrelevant. Bonds knows how to swing a bat and hit a ball squarely, most other players can just hit a ball far somewhat often.

                    As a Giants fan, watching players like Molina and Uribe approach pitches is embarrassing.
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                    • pfunk880
                      MVP
                      • Jul 2004
                      • 4452

                      #11
                      Re: What's with all the broken bats?

                      Originally posted by Chaos81
                      Yes, last season.


                      OP, where have you been?
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                      • jake44np
                        Post Like a Champion!
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 9563

                        #12
                        Re: What's with all the broken bats?

                        Originally posted by Blzer
                        Again, the bat was irrelevant. Bonds knows how to swing a bat and hit a ball squarely, most other players can just hit a ball far somewhat often.

                        As a Giants fan, watching players like Molina and Uribe approach pitches is embarrassing.
                        And yet they are in the majors???
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                        • Blzer
                          Resident film pundit
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 42520

                          #13
                          Re: What's with all the broken bats?

                          Originally posted by jake44np
                          And yet they are in the majors???
                          I know!



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