[The Engineer]

There are two strikes against wooden bats:

One, the major bat companies rely mainly on revenues from metal bat sales....wooden bats (aside from the specialty maple market) are not major revenue providers. Most professional athletes have contracts with bat companies and receive their bats at cost or for free. The production of metal bats is much less involved because there's no lumber to cut, collect and work, and therefore is much easier to mass produce for amateur markets. Hence, no high school market, bat companies go under

two, wood bats are cheaper. However, they are not nearly as durable and should HS go to wood bats, the quality would be compromised because they would have to be produced in such larger quantities. If you buy a random wood bat at Dicks, you're getting a very inferior product. Mass produced bats would shatter constantly, driving the price way up, and even at $40 a pop, 10 bats in a season wouldn't be out of the question