The New Bats are Killing College Baseball (Reasons Why)

The new bats are hurting the sport of college baseball.

1. They make it impossible to disguise any weaknesses.

Let's face it, not all the kids you see playing in a NCAA uniform are going to the pros. Some of them are good enough for college, not good enough for the next level. The new bats kill those guys.

2. Recruiting

When was the last time you heard about a team in the SEC dominating with Home Runs? USCe maybe. But that is it. Recruiting is being held for pitchers, pitchers, pitchers.

Look how many hitters go pro out of high school just because they don't want to waste a couple years using a bat they will never use again. They mine as well jump straight into a wooden bat and start practicing now.

3. Draft position

This one goes along side the last one really. It is becoming more rare to see a highly touted recruit, only the hitters, coming out of HS improve his draft position. Sure, there are players that do so, Mason Katz for example, but that number is dropping. Why?

Because pitchers are going to college to increase their draft stock and take advantage of these bats. They know if they go to college they can put up sick stats and do nothing but go North on draft day.

4. Excitement Level

A lot of fans, not the diehards like myself, will go catch a baseball game for the scoring and the drama. They don't want to go watch a kid like Jared Poche pitch a nearly perfect game as a true freshman against an SEC rival. They just don't. I do. I love watching these pitchers dominate. But I am afraid the bats are helping their numbers.

Maybe not all pitchers, but a good portion of them are definitely getting help from these bats.

5. Overall Quality of Baseball

For the baseball purest, the new bats are not as big a deal because they will argue that a player needs to learn how to hit a ball in the right spot anyways. However, we didn't pay to watch minor league players develop into MLB players. We are here to watch our LSU Tigers bring home another CWS title. And we love it when they do it with power. Remember 2009? Those weren't the same bats as 1997 yet they still worked. Why did we have to change those?

6. The New Baseball

Again, this is going to hurt pitching. Pitchers are going to lose movement on their pitches forcing more balls to go smoother down the plate and allowing hitters to see pitches better. It will increase hitting but it takes away one of the greatest pitches in the history of sports, the curveball. It will not only hurt a curveball from its movement but the slider to. They will both still do what they do but on a much smaller scale of movement.

BRING BACK THE 2009 BATS!