BESR or Wood?
I realize this is a wood bat discussion, but I must comment on the metal part of this statement.
"The other side will go into in depth detail to describe the optimum advantage in the bats compression/decompression ratio and how the ball with be deflected off of the bat at a higher speed similar to a trampoline effect. However. as I'm of the opinion that this is not true I'll wait to hear others elaborate on the merits of this claim."
I don't have the equipment to measure BESR. But there must be some kind of truth in it. FED-landia has been putting all its marbles into BESR for the past 5 years or so. Now the movement is to dampen the POWER out of all metal bats. I know the movement started after LSU walloped so many HOME RUNS during one of its many national championship runs. Who wants to pay $300 for a metal bat that carries a ONE year warranty and will lose all the POP in less than two years. Yeah, everybody might as well go back to wood composites.
I know even less about the BESR rating of a wood bat. Perhaps if all hitters were over 6 feet tall and gained another thirty pounds, I suppose a CORKED wood bat would give a scout a much better indication of POWER.
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