[Dakota]

So, we have all these bat manufacturers investing millions is metallurgy, materials science, bat performance engineering, testing, marketing, etc., etc., and, hey, they were ALL just innocent victims of random manufacturing problems and quality control.

Sure they were.

What we have here, it seems to me, is most likely bat manufacturers submitting dead bats of a similar design for testing and then manufacturing hot bats after certain "innocent adjustments" to the process - just for manufacturing efficiency, donchaknow.

That, and clear fraud - a couple of these bats carried the stamp, but had NEVER been submitted for testing by the ASA.

I wonder if any teed off lawyers play on any of these teams...