NHFS Survey

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by yawetag

My thought here was "WTF does this have to do with baseball?"

Now that I've had some time to think about it, I remember a statement that tampering with bats can technically be a federal crime.

BBCOR bats can be manufactured so that they are "tamper evident," including when they have their end-caps removed, they're rolled, or otherwise manipulated so as to alter their performance.

Manufacturers have so far refused to employ any of these tampering revealing technologies for fear of putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage relative to other manufacturers who do not use them.

If NCAA and FED adopt regulations requiring tamper evident bats, as they are in the process of doing, all manufacturers will have to comply. My guess is about 3-4 years until we see this.