[OffTheHook]

PEARL, Miss. -- College baseball's new metal bats have been praised by fans, coaches and pitchers. Game times are quicker and there are dramatically lower run totals.
But some of the biggest fans of the new bats are Major League Baseball scouts.
For these talent evaluators, the college variation of the game resembles "true" baseball for the first time in years, making their job a little easier as MLB's draft approaches in June.



http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=6403213

[Stardust]

This rule was put in because of MLB, so glad to hear them acknowledge that it has worked for them

[Jarons]

Does high schools use the new bats?

[Stardust]

^ no composite bats this year. Next year they go to the BBCOR bats that are used in college.

[Spud6]

^That will make for funner baseball if you ask me.

[Stardust]

^ It will require teams to play small ball and rely more on speed, but at the High School level, I don't see any dramatic changes in the game.

[LWC]

^ It will require teams to play small ball and rely more on speed, but at the High School level, I don't see any dramatic changes in the game.

So they will be ready for Dusty Baker baseball? :popcorn: :biggrin:

[OffTheHook]

^ no composite bats this year. Next year they go to the BBCOR bats that are used in college.

That's what they have said. YET...it is NOT being inforced hardly at all in EKY.