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Originally Posted by BretMan
Kyle, where are you getting your info on ABI? As I understand the ABI process, it involves rolling a bat only to a degree that simulates the stress that a bat typically sees with normal use.
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web1.ncaa.org/web_files/rules/baseball/bats/NCAAABIProcedure.pdf
Yeah, you're not going to be able to feel a shaved bat, but I've felt a few rolled ones. They're rippley. It's slight, to be sure.
As far as "weakening" them, I guess it's how you want to define that term. Softening up the bat will make it perform better, to a certain extent. Too soft, and it goes dead. I've heard the term "ripe" tossed around behind the backstop, after five straight , into the wind, dingers with the same bat.