Easton just voluntarily removed a truckload of bats from ASA certified bat list

[Jdaddy]

Anybody want to buy a 32/22 Phenix

Sending a txt. Your inbox is full, again! Lol!

 

[CoreSoftball20]

DD plays rec and they have never checked a bat. Just her luck though is she will finally hit one over the fence then they will decide to check the bat. I can see the opposing coach on their cell phone looking it up.

You can bet there are coaches all over ready to call them out...haha

 

[inde53546]

Anybody want to buy a 32/22 Phenix

I have a CF3 if you're interested.

 

[90210]

http://www.asasoftball.com/iowa/pdfs/03_Updated_FAQs.pdf

Also, the NCAA uses the ASA as their guide on approved bats and they pass testing data back and forth on them. I couldn't find the past NCAA approved list with the number of strikes against many of these models but they were on there with 1 or 2 strikes against them in the very recent past.

I think you'll find this interesting too considering you seem to think that it's mostly the older Eastons that fail.

https://nfca.org/web_docs/NCAARulesPowerpoint.pdf

As far as rec players go, as you can read in the FAQ's by ASA, it'll be up to the league.

OK, I guess I'll just have to trust you on the strike thing, hadn't heard of it before. And the numbers in that powerpoint are probably not out of proportion to the # of bats that each brand sells. That powerpoint didn't say anything about which brands were failing compression testing either, just stuff about cracks+rattles+wobbles etc.

Before you start spouting off about me just being a bat store owner...maybe learn a little about bats as well. As some knowledgeable people have said after your post, ASA instituted a new standard a while ago. THAT was your warning and if you have learned anything by new stamps/standards, this is exactly what happens. After a couple years, the bats go bye bye. ASA wasn't going to let these bats live forever. The older model Eastons are fierce and get hotter and hotter and will keep going well below failing until they blow up. ASA didn't tell people to go out and spend stupid money on these old bats and sure as hell aren't worried if someone bought one 2 months ago and now its useless. That's your problem. And I'm sorry, most people buying the old Eastons KNOW exactly why they are buying them.

And for the slowpitch ones...glad they are gone. Was more than sick of seeing 10 year old shaved Extendeds/Flex being hit by all the pansies
out there.

You have a conflict of interest. You're speculating about ASA's intentions. If they knew they were going to pull certain bats ahead of time, I'm not sure why giving notice isn't the better way to do it. The fact that some are shaved isn't a good reason to ban all of them.

If people don't think some of these bats aren't good, then they haven't swung some of them. Most that you listed were darn good when broke in.

I really doubt many rec players bought one of these bats 10 years ago and only put 40 swings/year on it. What I more saw, was the rec teams that
would buy 1 or 2 bats and they would get a 50 swings a double header on them because the whole team used it. By the end of the season, those darn
bats would have a thousand hits on it...haha

I've swung an extended and a flex, and wasn't impressed with either, and those were supposed to be the 2 best of the older Eastons. The (low) market value of the older SP eastons and the fact that they were rarely used demonstrate to me that this isn't a safety issue.

 

[Greenmonsters]

Btw, I don't think buying a 10+ year old bat off ebay or wherever really makes somebody an Easton
loyalist customer

Just saying this because some comments around other boards really had me cracking up. People
that own nothing Easton but a 10 year old bat they bought off ebay saying they wont be an Easton customer anymore.
A lot of the comments coming from the intelligent portion of the slowpitch crowd...haha

Oxymoron???

 

[Il softball fan]

For right now, is this just an ASA issue? Does everyone expect the other organizations to follow suit with this list?

 

[djcarter1966]

For right now, is this just an ASA issue? Does everyone expect the other organizations to follow suit with this list?

A lot of organizations just default to the ASA list so unless you are going to play one organization that does not follow the ASA list you are probably best to just avoid non ASA approved bat, then of course you risk them changing their mind at any point. This is pretty much the death knell for these bats

 

[Crashsdaddy]

I don't agree with the "this is a cash grab" idea. Over the last few years Easton has been more or less replace in the batter's box by LS's and CF's. You still see old Easton's but it's rare so replacing old Easton's only applies to a small number of people and like it or not, a lot of those people are probably going to move to LS's and CF's. I don't see Easton making a whole lot of money on this move.

I go back to my "anecdotal" observations at nationals last year. I saw a lot of old Easton's pulled for failed compression test and don't remember seeing any pass. Other bats being pulled seemed to be mainly due to lose joints of excessive chipping. I wouldn't be surprised if ASA went to Easton and said "we have a unique problem with the volume of your old bats failing compression tests (i.e. a safety test), what are we going to do about it?". Easton may have just done the right thing and pulled them voluntarily.

 

[Jdaddy]

This 8B passed and we played two teams who's girls had 1Bs that passed. This was 14U in Salem, VA. During the time we were in line for testing, I saw two LXTs and a CF5 fail. Guess it just depends when you were at the testing center. Just curious Crashsdaddy, how many was a lot?

 

[iMlearning]

We see more CF8's and Makos around here and very few LS's. I offered to buy DD the CF8 and she said no way...I love my Mako!