College players using Xeno over Meta and LXT

[LEsoftballdad]

For the last 5 yrs DD has hit Xeno's and LXT's. She prefers Xeno and seems to have the most success with it.

Once Xeno was removed from shelves she tried Meta and went through 3 of them in 1 season.

It's the barrel washer that sits between 2 plastic pieces that comes loose after a few weeks and rattles around. A poor design mid barrel. Exit velo is less once the washer breaks loose but the Meta feel and feedback is comparable to LXT.

Needless to say, she's headed back to LXT off the shelf and maybe a "direct order" Xeno. IMO removing the Xeno from store shelves was a mistake.

Writing this in hopes the Sales crew at LS see it and push to get the Xeno back in mainstream production and back in distribution.

That was a one year pull for LS. We carry the Xeno in store and have all sizes available.

 

[deepquagg]

That was a one year pull for LS. We carry the Xeno in store and have all sizes available.

I'll check it out. Where at?

 

[LEsoftballdad]

I'll check it out. Where at?

Check your inbox.

SPC Sports.

 

[CoreSoftball20]

Is Louisville pretending they are discontinuing Xeno again?

Still think they are just not wanting to pull a bat from stock for this customer.

 

[CoreSoftball20]

They have been trying to get rid of the Xeno forever. Even trying to just make it a website only purchase.

Its their lower priced bat, thats the issue. But the other problem is, every higher priced bat they come out with, doesnt
seem to get the spikes in the dirt to be financially possible to eliminate the lower priced Xeno.

So, the Xeno has been sticking around

 

[Lancer_dad]

Did the Zeno production also get moved to the PRC? The META (and the Easton Ghost for that matter) are manufactured there, and there are clearly some production control issues with those, based on failure rates that I’ve heard from retailers as well as previous posts here.

 

[_MIA_]

Did the Zeno production also get moved to the PRC? The META (and the Easton Ghost for that matter) are manufactured there, and there are clearly some production control issues with those, based on failure rates that I’ve heard from retailers as well as previous posts here.

DD's 2022 Xeno has Made in China stamped on it if I remember correctly.

 

[CoreSoftball20]

LS was

Did the Zeno production also get moved to the PRC? The META (and the Easton Ghost for that matter) are manufactured there, and there are clearly some production control issues with those, based on failure rates that I’ve heard from retailers as well as previous posts here.

all LS bats have been made in China for a long time

Its not like they are gonna make 2 models there, and one model here

A cracked bat, a lot of times isnt a failure. Bats are made to perform, so you give up durabilty. You want a tank,
go buy a Mako. And i guarantee you buy a newer bat after that...haha. You do realize the violent movement
a bat goes thru when you hit a ball? Composite is an amazing material. Bats come off an assembly line,
it is what it is.

 

[ANNASDAD]

You do realize the violent movement
a bat goes thru when you hit a ball?

That has always amazed me….whether it’s feeding balls doing tee work (where you’re up close and personal), or throwing close front toss in a cage. The sound and the raw violence, makes you wonder how bats last as long as they do?

 

[Lancer_dad]

Interesting. Anecdotally, based on my own family experience, we’ve been hitting Easton and Miken composite bats, both fastpitch and slow pitch for upwards of 20 years, and never had one crack or otherwise fail internally until this META. I buy new bats owing to my old bats going dead. Just seams odd to me that over the last 5 years or so, I’m hearing more reports of new bats not even making it through a season before they fail. Would be interesting to see actual data to confirm or disprove that, if it’s out there.