Are baseball bats usually wooden or metallic for better hits?
Monday, November 30th, 2009 at
12:11 pm
i don’t know if baseball bats are wooden or metallic for better swings and or hits help please
Metallic bats, if MLB used metal instead of wood, players would be hitting the ball out of the ball park. I would say a good 500 feet.
The metal bat is easier to swing with. The natural design of a metal bat is so that the barrel of the bat follows the hands during the swing..The wood bat has a natural density that causes the barrel of the bat to succumb to gravity before follwing the hands. Alot of average or mediocre hitters cannot use wooden bats because they are not used to the barrel dropping so much, and it causes them to pop the ball up.. also a ball travels farther off of a metal bat than a wood bat..If anyone ever saw Gary Matthews Jr a few years ago during BP, he took out a metal bat and was hitting 550+ foot HRs with it in BP..Metal bats do make the ball go farther, they are engineered around that principle
The transition from a metal bat to a wood bat is tough, and that is why at levels below the professional level, wood bat leagues are usually more premier than metal bat leagues of the same caliber
metal bats, to put it simply, are easier to swing and better for the average ballplayer. the one that wants to play with something more challenging uses the wood bat
metallic bats are better because the material used to make the bats react when they come in contact with the baseball and make the ball go farther and the bat is lighter so you get a swing around faster
i would say metallic
aluminum bats sweet spot is three times the size of of the sweet spot on a wooden bat.
aluminum bats are lighter and quicker while providing more power.
aluminum bats allow you to hit the ball further and wooden bats are heavier, and more dense and cannot hit the ball as far. they use wooden bats in the pros because they would kill each other hitting the ball. therefore to increase the competition they use wooden bats