- Dec 11, 2010
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This is a tough one. I’m generally a proponent of not going too long too quick but if it’s working I probably would not go backwards. Two things about the vid, she appears to hit gap to gap which I like but I was not able to get a feel for the pitching. My concern: If you go too big and it’s working against low level pitching but the player then starts seeing better pitching for some reason, that can become a showstopper and merely using a smaller bat probably won’t immediately fix it.
Again if it’s working, you gotta roll with it. But if you are a parent thinking about doing this, be careful. Have seen too many players go from a 33 LXT or CF to a 34 Easton and spend the whole fricking summer struggling. The best example of this was a pencil thin player whose dad did the above and refused to buy the player the bat she had been using because the dummy paid full retail for a Ghost. Keep in mind this goof arrived at games to watch his daughter struggle in a new diesel pusher motor coach pulling a custom Jeep with 35” tires and he and his wife rode custom mountain bikes in between games. He wanted everyone to know how much he paid for that bat and that she wasn’t swinging an LXT anymore. She got the double whammy of 16u pitching vs 14u pitching and a bat that was too fricking big. Fell out of the top of the order quickly.
Again if it’s working, you gotta roll with it. But if you are a parent thinking about doing this, be careful. Have seen too many players go from a 33 LXT or CF to a 34 Easton and spend the whole fricking summer struggling. The best example of this was a pencil thin player whose dad did the above and refused to buy the player the bat she had been using because the dummy paid full retail for a Ghost. Keep in mind this goof arrived at games to watch his daughter struggle in a new diesel pusher motor coach pulling a custom Jeep with 35” tires and he and his wife rode custom mountain bikes in between games. He wanted everyone to know how much he paid for that bat and that she wasn’t swinging an LXT anymore. She got the double whammy of 16u pitching vs 14u pitching and a bat that was too fricking big. Fell out of the top of the order quickly.
