Believe what u want but the added piece in the handle was the issue. Once a bat is deemed illegal I don't believe it can be made legal again. All the bats come from China so its probably just as cheap to replace the bat as to pay someone to change handles. I would doubt that suncoast even has...
My daughter received her replacement last week. Only used it at a hitting lesson but it seems to be the exact same bat that was banned. Sounds the same. My daughter uses her old suncoast at lessons quite a bit and I couldn't tell a difference in performance between the two. From what I was told...