Aluminum vs. Wood Bat Test

[rich1051414]

The difference is it is easier to hit with an aluminum bat, although wood bats potentially can hit the ball farther, but only if you hit the ball in the much smaller sweet spot. I think overall aluminum is better, as it is a less risky bat to use, but if you NEED a homerun, you might be better off going with a wood bat.

[VikingSkills7]

Cool Test, But I'm going to hafta Disagree Fully.

I used one of My GFs Fast Pitch Softball bats when we were dating and Practicing for fun and I was Hitting Homeruns Left and Right which would have been Shallow-Mid Outfield Flyouts with my Rawlings 33-30 Big Stick.

I remember because I ended up feeling really bad for Losing all her Gameballs.

Training with Wood Bats is the Way to go, tho.

[DoubledUpIrish]

Terrible misleading test. Sorry.

[zulizin]

Bryce Harper was taking BP(At a homerun derbey at Tropicana Park) and with a 33/30 voodoo i want to say '07 model which I myself have used in highschool games the ball was leaving his bat at an illegal excess of 108 with a BESR bat the ball was leaving his bat 11MPH faster than it is allowed by BESR. With a wood bat while it was leaving play it was still leaving at about 15 MPH slower than off of his Voodoo.

[baseball42567]

woudn't how good that they hit each ball be another independent factor besides the type of bat used.

[SuperNate28]

i prefer wooden bats cuz it sounds cooler with the crack then the ping on some of the aluminum bats

[stlsoccer93]

How do you know that the radar wasn't catching the speed of the swing of the bat rather than the ball?

[PearlPlayer26]

i think they were looking at the speed of the ball coming off the bat not the actual swing speed.

[turkeyhillsoda]

theres not a huge difference on a wooden bat the sweet spot is much smaller then an aluminum ....on a wooden bat from the tip of the bat about 3 inches down starts the sweet spot and going about 4 inches down.... aluminum tends to have a huge sweet spot from the fat part of the barrel to down to the vortec part of the bat... other wise sweet spots are similar but wooden bats jam more when hit lower towards the handle. where aluminum you dont feel a shock and hit the ball pretty good

[lsmiles22]

Actually your results are in accurate. A aluminum baseball bat is lighter therefore you swing faster. For the expirement to be accruate you must do around 50 swings a piece but not all at once because of fatigue. Next the bats have to be same weight. Your radar gun must be off because one of you guys hit 84 84 83 and then 94 thats an outliar and therefore needs to be varified. So good luck next time

[lgradyl]

I find this test to be useless. One of each bat was used. A human throwing, and a human swinging, and only five test-swings apiece. Talk about inaccurate variables!! How fast was the bat-swing on average?? Probably faster with the lighter bat, and they don't tell you the brand or weight of the wooden bat.

[chiodos132]

comp bats can get u an extra 30ft on ur hits

[Howie7777777]

they should have done distance instead because the radar could have been checking the ball on the way to the plate or the swing speed. i have played with both and metal is more forgiving and it goes much further

[tpc484]

u cant honestly say there is no difference between metal and wood bats, u only tested one bat! Your conclusion could be that a Rawlings liquid metal plasma performed equally to a wood bat, but u cannot generalize ur findings to all metal bats. Also, the pitched speed wasn't constant. A pitching machine should have been used.

[paintballzhurt]

retard a pitching machine was used!! you can hear itm your fucking stupid

[dlee4she]

wood lets u know if ur a good hitter. aluminum...u can get away with a lot of bad swings and still hit it hard.