Mattingly bat with yellow rubber "boot"

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by UmpTTS43

Does that include the now banned 33 inch Marucci CAT 5 bat? It will have the proper BBCOR markings.

I did not know that this was decertified and this is exactly what I am talking about. One week the bat is good, next week it is no good. The NHFS is as bad as the morons in Washington DC when it comes to making a decision and sticking to it. Look at the idiocy last year, where we were getting updates almost on a day to day basis. It's absolutely ridiculous.

[DG]

The email I got was a note from my assigner, forwarded from NFHS that stated NCAA had ruled the Marucci bat illegal so NFHS was adopting same. So they just followed NCAA lead apparently.

[asdf]

Originally Posted by ozzy6900

I did not know that this was decertified and this is exactly what I am talking about. One week the bat is good, next week it is no good. The NHFS is as bad as the morons in Washington DC when it comes to making a decision and sticking to it. Look at the idiocy last year, where we were getting updates almost on a day to day basis. It's absolutely ridiculous.

The morons are the bat manufacturers who knowingly push the envelope by manufacturing a bat that could (and did in the random models purchased and tested) exceed the acceptable range of performance.

[ODJ]

The illegal Marucci 33" has white barrel with red lettering. The company pulled it off the shelves, and will try to get approval for it soon. The barrel color will change.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by ODJ

The illegal Marucci 33" has white barrel with red lettering. The company pulled it off the shelves, and will try to get approval for it soon. The barrel color will change.

They won't get that bat approved. Apparently they changed the specs after getting some prototypes approved. The production models are nowhere near the required BBCOR of 0.5. The NFHS official I spoke to described these bats as "hotter than a pistol," whatever that means.

So perhaps they're manufacturing a new model to meet the requirements, but the illegal bats have no shot at being "reapproved."