Wood teaches you the best area, which carries over to when you swing a metal bat. If you want our honest and completely unbiased opinion, metal bats are a bit of a cheat code with their enlarged sweet spots. With a bigger sweet spot, you have a larger optimal area to hit the ball with, resulting in more big hits—but not more quality big hits.
Metal withstands miss-hits farther down the barrel, toward the middle of the bat, much better than a wood bat can. Big hits towards the middle of a wood bat can end with a shattered bat and an easy out, but again the artificial help of the metal bat might turn it into a cheeky base hit.
Yes, we wood bat manufacturers get it. You want your bat barrel as big, long and light as possible, with a big sweet spot to boot. Metal and composite bats are hollow, allowing them to be made as lightly as legally possible. And, wood bats can only achieve a certain barrel diameter and length before being too top-heavy. But does that mean you should go with a metal bat?
Not so fast. First, examine the swing of the metal batter compared to a hitter with a wood bat. Fielder safety has taken a much-deserved jump to the forefront in the last decade or so. Anyone who pitches or plays 1st or 3rd base can tell you a story of a ball from a metal bat that nearly took their head off.
In youth baseball, there have been even more extreme cases, including fractured jaws, facial bones and skulls, comas and even death. The goal: make metal perform more like wood bats. Lowering exit velocity means greater reaction time for fielders. So, issue solved in making metal bats as safe as wood bats, right? When their swing starts a little too late they will make contact with the handle of their bat. Just the opposite of being jammed, starting late on an outside pitch can lead to a sting from an at-bat.
Players at all levels have experienced this issue and have been rewarded with their hands stinging from making contact. Cold weather causes hands to sting more when making contact with a baseball. Why does cold weather cause bats to sting? This has to do with how the baseball bat reacts in certain temperatures. The warmer the bat, the more it will be elastic and expand. Colder temperatures prevent bats from expanding, which causes more vibrations in the bat from making contact with the baseball.
There may be some discrepancies when comparing a specific wood bat to a specific aluminum bat, but in general, aluminum bats have wider sweet spots than wood bats. Due to the larger area for the sweet spot, aluminum bats will cause less sting than wood bats. Batting gloves are a great first step in trying to reduce bat sting. Batting gloves will help absorb some of the shock associated with the increased vibrations from the bat.
If possible, try finding some batting gloves with additional padding. Once there is a layer of grip on your bat, get some additional 1. This extra layer of tape will help absorb the vibrations from the bat and decrease the sting from making contact.
He also has swung some with is -9 voodoo, he has it doesn't sting as much. He is using the same pair of batting gloves with both. Any suggestions, maybe a better grip, better pair of batting gloves, athletic tape over grip. Tags: None. Originally posted by dl View Post. Comment Post Cancel. My belief is that sting occurs when the bat head is behind the hands at contact. Would like to know for sure. Coach C. Sweet spot. I watched the drama in fall ball with my son and his stingers.
He's been through some hitting instruction during the past month and I have not seen him have one stinger yet and he is using his same group of bats. Originally posted by bballdad View Post. Get him some Easton VRS batting gloves they have padding, but not too thick. Then tell him to suck it up and hit it on the sweet spot more often. Ursa Major. Instead of buying gloves that mask a faulty swing, teach the kid how to square the ball by rotating the barrel to contact.
Hopefully that's not what you want.
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