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Originally Posted by LDUB
I thought BESR made the speed of the ball coming off non wood bats equal to the speed of a ball of a wooden bat.
"The best major league bat yielded a BESR of 0.728, which the NCAA then set to be the maximum allowed value."
http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~a-nathan/po...WhitePaper.pdf |
I think (my opinion only) that while the maximum speed might be (approximately) the same, the area on the bat that can produce that speed is much larger on an aluminum bat than on the wood bat. So, more balls come off the bat at / near the maximum speed on an aluminum bat, and there are more balls that cause / nearly cause severe injuries.