re: The age old "why did they change the bats" argument (some interesting numbers)

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You don't consider that MLB guys hit the ball better then college guys so if they were even with HR per game than the college game would be easier to hit the ball out with, and if MLB guys used the same bat the HR per game would be over 1.

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I considered that just fine. I also considered pitchers have every advantage over hitters in college where as in the pros they don't. College pitchers have a larger strike zone, a gripper baseball and deadened bats to throw at. With only the bats being similar in MLB. That has produced less than half the amount of home runs in college now as MLB. Most people will say even the MLB game was better with more than it has now, and college has less than half that power. It's simply unacceptable baseball from a spectators standpoint.

Teams in college same to have adjusted well enough by now to the new bats and we see that at LSU for sure. Long gone are the days of stacking 6 foot plus 200 plus pound guys in the lineup. So the coaches have in turn made power numbers even worse because of the devaluing of the power game.

Once again, scouts can grade high school players out to be 7 figure contract guys without ever picking up a wood bat. College has wooden bat summer leagues to help scouts. Why did we need to change the bats so bad when the power numbers were so close to the professional product? It made the game much less exciting. That's really all it accomplished.