Word. lolEverybody has a plan till their expensive, fragile bat punches them in the face…
Word. lolEverybody has a plan till their expensive, fragile bat punches them in the face…
I was as well. I noticed two small pant lines after about 150 hits in two or three places, nothing big. Then looked at it after our hitting practice last night with her instructor...That's when I noticed things had jumped up a notch. Certainly crazy, especially when we were being super safe as well as using really nice leather softballs. Wasn't going to hit anything else with it.I don't know of many newer composite bats that really need much "breaking in". DD has a 2017 LXT Hyper that I bought in good used condition plus a newer Demarini. Both have literally thousands of swings on them from a fully grown hittin'-over-the-fence 17-18 yo. She used them for Tee, soft-toss, front toss, and hundreds of at-bats. The only place we didn't use them is in a cage with a machine throwing dimple balls. Neither bat shows anything more than hit marks, and those mostly clean off with Windex. I'm stunned that a 10yo's bat shows that kind of wear / damage after so little use.
I agreeMy “factor of safety” advice would be buy a bat which you can afford to purchase at least two times in one calendar year..if cannot do that get something cheaper…
I know I am in the minority here but I see these pictures of bats breaking and of broken ones and all I see is ball marks all the way down the throat almost to the handle, and way off the end. If you are not using the barrel what do you expect to happen?? Get a sweet spot bat, camwood or the like and work off the tee. just my opinion though.
Especially since half the purpose of all these pitching lessons we go to is to is to make sure the batter doesn't hit the ball on the sweetspot.Expecting hitters to only make contact on the sweetspot is pretty unrealistic.
Hence why you use a BP batEspecially since half the purpose of all these pitching lessons we go to is to is to make sure the batter doesn't hit the ball on the sweetspot.