You know something is wrong when an average size 12 year old girl can hit a ball 265' in a slowpitch game.
Yup, she was using a Miken II.
Later she used the new Easton and hit it nearly as far.
Same game with the Miken, a 10 year old that was all of 4 foot nothing hit one almost 200'.

Something has to be done about these bats, either a new test or ban them all together.

BTW, we were using an 11" ball with a 44 core and 375 compression.

Which Easton? The Synergy?

everybody's a slugger------
I remember doing men's slo-pitch and
seeing everyone crunch the ball----
high tech bats and balls that bounce
like a super ball--- if I was a pitcher
I'd want to be lobbing them in from 2nd base !!

In my opinion, the bats are the single greatest factor in the deterioration of SP. It's not just the home runs; it's all those balls that would have been outs 25 years ago but now shoot through or over the fielders.

The main field at our county park has 300-foot fences, 10 feet high, and the wind usually drifts in. In the old days, maybe 20 balls a season would have been hit over that fence by the entire league (150 total games), virtually always by genuine sluggers. I did a game last year in which each team hit its 6 homers by the third inning. One team inadventently hit 5 more (for outs) and lost 44-38.

There are no more open tournaments around here. How would the games ever end?