HS Baseball Takes A Step Closer to Wooden Bats
Next season, high school baseball will officially switch from the current aluminum alloy bats to the new BBCOR bats, already in use by the NCAA.
BBCOR stands for Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution. In layman’s terms, it’s the bounce-back or trampoline effect the bat’s surface has when the ball makes contact with it. Imagine dropping a tennis ball onto a tennis racket. It bounces much higher that it would if it were bounced off the ground. The different aluminum alloys that are used in making bats have this bounce-back or trampoline effect. The result is that hitters get better drive and lift on the ball than they would with a wooden bat. In an effort to more closely emulate wooden bats and eliminate a banned process called “rolling”, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) approved a measure to only allow bats approved by the BBCOR process. What is rolling? Aluminum …
