Aluminum bats vs. Wood Bats - a real test

[coolrilind]

Hi, my names Johnny, and I record my videos with a secret video recorder in my calculator

[jacob12721]

frozen ropes sucks so much donkey balls you over price lessons...

[TheKongpaseuth]

its cuz they were using the gay rawlings plasma, use a demarini.

[lincecumfreak55]

i always like to use a wood bat . because it makes u hit the ball harder , in control.

[tj4y9]

WE all know wooden bats hit farther

[MegaPIGinaWIG]

@OZolrendor0 Shut they are different styles of English... Sigh... Idiots...

[0Zolrender0]

its pronounced al-u-min-i-um...not a-lum-in-um. americans...sigh

[ngio24]

Wood and Aluminum are virtually the same WHEN you hit it on the sweet spot the reason aluminum tends to produce more hits is because you can get cheap hits off the handle or end of aluminum unlike wood where if you get jammed it'll be a broken bat ground out

[jason12159]

aluminum just makes the ball jump of the bat....travelss further...thats the difference

[sillymillydog]

if your a good hitter it doesnt matter if you use wood or metal, you hit it hard and fast all the time

[ayyoMistaSpacely]

@TheCrsuperstar22 The barrels the same 2 5/8 or 2 3/4 for both bats

[FueledByTyeler]

you're all right. the guy who posted the video is right, the ball travels at the same speed. kaneandbrian up top is right, the ball goes further off of an aluminum bat. there are 2 reasons for this, the first is that obviously there is more useable surface on an aluminum bat. if you hit a ball on the handle of a wood bat you're screwed, with metal, i've gotten hits. the second reason is that even though the speed is the same, the ball carries more energy off of a wooden bat (trampoline effect)

[jofo817]

the important thing is not the bat speed, but the ball speed off the bats. Which was being tested here ? Its obvious that someone can swin a "metal" or a "wood" bat the same MPH (the swing) but what about the "exit speed" of the ball? was that different from wood to metal ?

just a thought.

[NewYorkStateOfCrime]

This dont prove anything. How to really test it is Have a wood bat sticking out, and metal bat sticking out...Somehow and someway tHEN. have a pitching machine feed the pitches. And let the ball hit the bat. Metal will have more distance.

[conda420]

They should have took 30 swings each dropping all their lowest i bet they only nutted a few out of those 6

[daneleggo]

i go to frozen ropes all the time

[gdub454]

Stupid Test..have to b completely brainless to think as narrator says..there really isnt much diff in swingin alum bat vs. wood bat Really? dude did u bump ur head on something hard?..

[zjtbaseballman]

the radar gun is prob picking up the swing not the ball

[Cazilboy13]

these jabronis are dumb. i think this needs to go on mythbusters...

[tuckerhead23]

I wonder if Bryce Harper could hit the back of Tropicana Field with wood? No way. Give a MLB player an alum or comp bat and watch them take BP. There's a real test. Ya think they might hit the ball a little, or a lot, further??? Pitch velocity increases the trampoline effect with alum/comp bats. These guys were hitting lob balls... For anyone to argue that composite and aluminum is not significantly better than wood is foolish.

[gj139]

dumbasses cant hit that well lol i can hit 80 on the gun off the bat at 14

[psopitch8]

the radar gun could of been measuring bat speed not the ball off the bat

[gj139]

@psopitch8 its impossible to measure the bat speed simply because of the angle and direction the bat is travelling

[JKJchamp6]

if you guys think these stats were fake, put this in mind... Why dont you see college players hitting home runs every at-bat? they have metel bats so why aren't they slammin them out of the park?

[MrChillGuy]

i got hit in the head by a wood bat n honastly, you dont rilly no the differance on which is harder

[davincicode101]

if you got hit with an aluminum bat, it would be a hell of a lot harder than a wooden bat.

i'm pretty sure it's the same for a baseball.

[lureyourkidsinvan]

Maybe you should bring some real analysts who map out more categories than just one. You took into account bat speed. But did you ever take into account the ball will travel further given aluminum is stiffer and therefore more powerful than wood? If you dropped bunts with no bat speed the aluminum would travel further that's because there's more spring and a stiffer, denser impact than wood. That's why you will never become scientists, you don't look at every aspect, tunnel vision idiots.

[SimpleStuff31]

@lureyourkidsinvan if they come off at the same speed they will go they same distance, if they both come off at 95 the will both go the same distance, because once it leaves the bat the only force acting on it is gravity, and they will travel the same.

[mkeets]

@lureyourkidsinvan i have a question for you how can something be stiffer and have a greater spring effect?

[yurijm]

@mkeets Try throwing a ball against a pillow and then against a wall and see which comes faster back to you :)

[553eminem]

hahahaha pauz it at 1:42

[TBTwinsFan09]

This was a pointless video... Alum hits them WAY harder... this was a pointless test... if both bats weigh the same... then you will probably have the same swing speed... Alums have a MUCH bigger sweet spot...

[ThePhillieshoward6]

i say bats are all the same its not the bat its the person swinging it.

[pullt]

"I played with the Boston Red Sox from 2001 to 2005."

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Umm...no, you played a few dozen games in their system hitting a buck and a half and got told to GTFO and STFU....

.

What a fucking fraud.

[ttowntom]

This is why baseball players shouldn't do physics. If ball coming off bats only moved 85-90 mph, then pitchers could stand at home plate and lob balls over the fence all day long. The radar gun is simply measuring **bat** speed, not the speed of the ball itself. The "trampoline" effect -- the greater flex-- of an aluminium bat is what geenerates more ball speed .... the bat is more efficient at transferring momentum to the ball.

[bigmakattack1]

how do you think that it's a joke when a major leauger uses an alluminum bat if MLB used allluminum bats the fences would be over 600 feet

[xVilmaax51]

lets not forget these are pros with unbelieveable bat speeds.. were talkings younger kids and young teens

[unclejuju12]

it matters bat speed and how good ur swing is on how hard u hit thew ball if ur using wood thats heavy of course ur swing slowly making u not hit the ball as hard but if u swing aluminum thats the same amount of weight u would probably hit it the same

[Ajmasterb12]

Poor quality

[xmanthegame]

bullshitttt ive played in an aluminum bat league and a wooden bat tornament i have seen the diffrence first hand..aluminum bats give you so much more power than wood..fyi u tested aluminum bats but not composite bats that almost everyone uses.

[dropouts]

he didnt play for the red sox... he never make it past AA...what a chode

[99mustangsixbanger]

@dropouts he played for the red sox organization though may not have been major league but watever

[territuck1187]

what kind of wood bat do you recommend for me i play on a 13u travel team i use a nike cx2 -3

[MrTmy82]

@territuck1187 get a brett composite wood bat of the same weight and length

[yeah2boy]

Everyone needs to use common sense. The radar gun is picking up the bat speed. There is no question about it. Some of the balls are pop ups and some are crushed yet they all register within 5mph of each other? A few of these balls are hit pretty hard and would register way over 85mph probably close to 110mph.

[thunderbball16]

its cause the rawlings plasma is a shitty bat how u get a tpx or easton

[pfa64]

why would people pay $3OO for metal basts if wood bats are better, doesnt make sense lol

[3sbrowns]

The Radar gun picked up their swing, or bat speed. Not the speed or velocity of the ball leaving the bat.

[yuyuboi]

is this testing how fast they swing or the "off the bat" ball speed?

[DerBIGugeIHupf]

i think it's their bat speed.

[thereaper8675309]

The best bat ive ever used is the voodoo demirini

[yuyuboi]

@thereaper8675309 agreed now i use the cf3 black and its weirder but all demarinis are the shit

[adion33]

those are bat speeds numb nutz

[Crocodile25]

Ever hear od sample size? I would think to do this study properly, you would have to hit at least 100 balls with each bat, because you aren't even hitting each ball perfectly.

Anybody that's hit with both types of bats knows that Wood bats (while being a lot cooler) have noticeably less pop and a much smaller sweet spot.

[carolinabaccyspitter]

@Crocodile25 I completely disagree with you here. The reason that people think that wooden bats don't have as much pop as aluminum bats is because they don't know how to hit with a wooden bat. They can't hit it on the sweet spot and don't get anywhere near the results they should because of it. i can guarantee you that if you hit a ball on the sweet spot of a wooden bat, with the right upward angle and backspin, it will go just as far, if not farther, than it will with an aluminum bat.

[navyseal04]

@carolinabaccyspitter thats the biggest bowl shit ive ever heard

[no1linknparkfan]

Ok, this is dumb.

1) These guys missed half of the pitches

2) You dont get as much "pop" out of a toss drill, you work on fundementals of a swing and exploding at the ball. Only in real batting pracitce will you see true results.

3) Did anybody notice that the radar gun might be picking up thier batspeed enstead of the ball coming off of the bat?

Espn did an April fools joke when they told MLB players that aluminum bats were going to be allowed. Most of them said they would stop playing.

[tracer052495]

Good points but it wasnt a toss drill the guy behind the net was just taking speeds

[no1linknparkfan]

Wow, now I feel stupid. I really didnt notice that he was holding a radar gun

[TheBigOilyMen]

why are stealths so overrated??? seriously they arent any better than most others. the more recent rawlings models are great. i got a 2009 plasma and its pretty sick. they weight is way more balanced than any year plasma and its way cheaper

[afd1995]

stealths suck, the best bat i ever had was a catalyst

[JoeyBagODonuts612]

the sv12s are pretty good

[zandersagwa]

Rawlings aluminum bats in general aren't the best, but the test looks rather legit. Again, if a better quality aluminum bat, like an Easton Stealth, was used, there would probably be some difference more spread out differences.

If I was on the mound though, I'd rather see a wooden bat come backer than an aluminum bat one.

[jaboyj13]

yea they use a crappy aluminum bat with a wood bat like i mean if it was like a cf3 cf4 triton or combat or sumn then

[fox19100]

combats and tritons suck so much

[TruThFuLLGaMeR]

@fox19100 ur a dumb shit

[Texasdude4Eva]

this was the dumbest test. first of all these guys suck, they missed everytime they showed them. second if a pro were to use a metal bat they would hit 600 foot homers and there would be deaths instead of concussions.

[baseballphreak5]

i can sort of agree with this because it does pretty much just boils down to the size of the sweet spot but i won't fully agree because that test sucked.....the gun was just reading the bat speed...there's no way the gun picked up the ball

[CASTORA360]

not a very efficient test,in a real mlb game everything hit would go a lot further with a metal bat.

[jjhomeboys]

that is a good test metal bats just have a bigger sweet spot and using metal in the mlb would make it to easy to hit home runs

[GarcBomber20]

Stupid... If you had data on the ball coming off the bat, there is where you'd see a considerable difference in velocity.

[stonefacekilla19]

awesome I was just clicking links and I see this video. Dan Hummel taught me how to hit like 10 years ago when I was just a little leaguer! Pretty cool.

[Metxtremecodglitcher]

can someone do composite wood verse metal verse maple verse ash verse bamboo

[lawnjack8]

everyone knows.... one thing it's not aluminum ne more and two the regulation of bats used in college are only allowed to have and a maximum rebound of that of a similar wooden bat. However their sweet spots are much different in size, which the video states!! if the bats hit it harder then the balls velocity (speed) would have to be much higher. how could it travel farther if it's not going ne faster off the bat? some people need to think b4 they write stuff they know nothing about!

[KaneandBrian]

thats bull shit everyone knows that aluminum bats hit the ball harder

[bluedarien123]

@KaneandBrian yes they hit HARDER. but wood makes the ball float in the air for longer

[sweetness11313]

@KaneandBrian

no, everyone thinks aluminum bats hit the ball harder. in reality if both bats are swung with the same momentum and they both hit the sweet spot, there really isn't a differance

[SirFightsalot]

@KaneandBrian cause their so much lighter and u can swing em way faster...

[MobbinAllDay8]

they mean its juss easier to hit with an aluminum... the larger sweet spot they mentioned. hence why the pro are pros the always or alot more consistently hit the ball on the sweet spot then say an armature hitter... high school, college.

[benjie414]

waste of time. didn't explain shit about aluminum vs wood.

[lowryw]

Aluminum bat used was a -3 drop BES certified bat - it is supposed to perform just like wood, with a larger sweet spot - which they showed.

Non BES certified aluminum will perform much better than wood, because of a higher trampoline effect

[OTKilla69]

it takes more power to hit with a wood. if you can hit good with a wood then you can kill it with an aluminum bat.

[ipissmypantsbadly]

I dont care. Metal bats last longer and is stronger for the ball.

[GfromNyc]

i dont care, metal makes a huge difference in games. if u get jammed with a wood bat, it could break and be a weak hit, but with metal probably a single.

[tripstahz]

i wonder which bat would feel nicer being stuck up a person's asshole

[loolooproduction]

ur so gay queer and ur not funny either

[sloppyoscar]

aluminum bats deliver more "tweener" hits -- balls that drop between the infielder and outfielder for hits rather than balls caught by the infielder

[cosmicbutthairs]

Bigger sweet spot in aluminum.

[kareem33la]

Is that the upper deck baseball ball acdemy in Rhode Island it looks like it

[jimbotrains]

it doesnt matter if ur a good hitter tho, cause if ur a good hitter, than u can hit the ball with anything. but aluminum does go farther by about 15-20 ft.

[javy0310]

That bat is illegal in high school and college. They used a 34" 31 oz. because it is a -3 and is the length to weight differential that is legal. They changed it from -5 to -3 I believe in 2000

[sk8monster]

a metal bat hits the ball harder because the bat kind of absorbs the ball and then "trampolines" the ball. with a wood bat the bat stays stiff and the ball bends and then after it is shot through the air it returns to its sphere shape.

[GKid139]

its true but it is also known that the ball goes farther off an aluminum bat

[sizemo7]

there is NO way that wood is as fast as aluminum..

[studywar]

if u have respect for the game, u ll use wooden.

[sizemo7]

i think they should get rid of metal bats in college and maybe high school..

[gabonayez]

This is a horrible test...what about the swing factor? I mean, how do we know that all of the swings were of equal power? Firing balls at a stationary bat would be much more conclusive.

[CHE5T3R]

Composite and Alloy bats are better than wood. Daniel A. Russell from the Science & Mathematics Department, Kettering University has studied bats quite extensively for both baseball and softball.

In Baseball, Composite and Alloy bats perform, on average, a 5 mph batted ball speed.

His tests are far more controlled than two dudes swinging at pitches.

[CHE5T3R]

Composite and Alloy bats are better than wood. Daniel A. Russell from the Science & Mathematics Department, Kettering University has studied bats quite extensively for both baseball and softball.

In Baseball, Composite and Alloy bats perform, on average, a 5 mph batted ball speed.

His tests are far more controlled than two dudes swinging at pitches

[tollymick777]

well.. aluminum can carrie the fall further, or keep the same speed for longer extend or like a car, has more torque.. im not sure, im not a physic major, but this test only tells the speed off the bat..

[irndk10]

it wouldnt be any difference. the difference between metal and wood is that the metal has a larger sweet spot like they said in the end.

[HEATHERLYNNSMITH]

so can they tell me why pros dont use metal bats?

[egoscueg]

Like the announcer says at the end of the video "the difference is in the sweet spot." Much easier to mess up and not make the best contact and still have the ball move like a rocket off the bat. But if they were legal in the pros people would get very hurt because of how good these guys are at getting the sweet spot on the ball. Yikes. Yankees RULE!

[gtfan636]

seriously that might be true

[gtfan636]

yeah, i don't know if that was really a true test. If MLB players used aluminum bats people would get injured for sure.

[plateofshrimp]

You'd get about 1 pitcher killed a week

[jermoply]

interesting

[project916]

i know that a wood bat will bend on impact with the ball.

but i'm not sure if aluminum bats bend on impact...

[jesuit08]

they sure do they have cnt bats and stiff complex i have the cnt the ball comes off the bat faster and it has more pop

[ozunasox]

cnt sucks. alloy bat is better

[XxBLaCk0uTxX]

wood bats are used because the ball not hit as hard, its for the protection of the players.

[gdavis9888]

but remember...he was soft tossing it...throwing at about 40 mph probably.and i dont know about woodies,but baseballs come off of aluminum bats twice the speed it was pitched..so there fore a ball pitched at say..90 would come off the bat at 180 if hit at the sweet spot

[Ballplayer300th]

he was tossing it?? it was a machine firing it...