Mattingly bat with yellow rubber "boot"

[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."