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BBCOR bats in NCAA baseball
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:46 am
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:46 am
I am a huge college baseball fan. I have had season tickets to LSU my whole life but it has been torture at times watching games since the bat change. I know they are using new balls but no one knows how exactly that will affect things. Is anybody a fan of hat bbcor bats have done to the game?
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Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:47 am to Jack Daniel
Its pretty much a unanimous opinion outside of baseball teams from California that the new bat is ruining college baseball
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:48 am to VermilionTiger
I don't follow college baseball. What's the problem? Is the bat dead?
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:52 am to Jack Daniel
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Is anybody a fan of hat bbcor bats have done to the game?
I hate them. The CWS sucks. I forget how many HR's were hit in Omaha (thinking 2-3) but the bats have ruined the game IMO.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:53 am to baybeefeetz
Basically. The sweet spot was pretty much taken away. I went through the change in high school and you can definitely tell the difference between the new ones and the old ones.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:56 am to baybeefeetz
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Is the bat dead?
Wood is hotter.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 7:57 am to tap011
Their excuse was to reduce pitcher injury but I didn't think it was happening that much in college
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:05 am to Jack Daniel
The new balls won't come until 2015, so we've got one more season like the last few. I'm hoping the new balls make a big difference when they get here.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:06 am to Jack Daniel
New baseballs will not be used this year. Next year we will probably have new balls with lower seams, which will allow the ball to travel farther due to less wind resistance.
However, this year expect more of the same.
However, this year expect more of the same.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:07 am to VermilionTiger
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Its pretty much a unanimous opinion outside of baseball teams from California that the new bat is ruining college baseball
This. Teams like Fullerton already played small ball so it didn't affect them much. It directly hurt teams like LSU though who generally had at least a couple sluggers on the team.
I hate them, find college baseball much more boring now, and really don't understand what was wrong with the bats from 09-10.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:09 am to rballa19
Supposed to go 20% further and have 20% less movement on breaking balls per Sports Science.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:12 am to Choupique19
Hopefully the rules committee will go ahead and just adopt the minor league ball with the flat seams and livelier core. No need in having dead bats AND dead balls.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:37 am to Jack Daniel
I've gotten used to the new bats and during the regular season it's not that bad. But when you play in huge parks like Hoover or Omaha it's too much.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:38 am to Priceless
The only thing more dead than the bats was probably the CWS ratings
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:39 am to Jack Daniel
If they were using the old bats and balls, UCLA would not have been the CWS champion. That is a fact. Hell, Ibarra alone had two balls alone against UCLA that would have been homers with the old bats and balls.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 8:41 am to Starchild
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wrong with the bats from 09-10
Exactly. The first change was fine. I have no idea why they went this far with the bats.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 10:08 am to TigerCub
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I've gotten used to the new bats and during the regular season it's not that bad. But when you play in huge parks like Hoover or Omaha it's too much.
They aren't terrible except when combined with the big parks like you said. Omaha was way too big.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 10:27 am to Jack Daniel
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The only thing more dead than the bats was probably the CWS ratings
Well you're an idiot. The postseason as a whole had some of its best ratings ever this past season.
Posted on 1/14/14 at 10:29 am to Broski
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The postseason as a whole had some of its best ratings ever this past season.
How about just the CWS?
Posted on 1/14/14 at 10:39 am to Topwater Trout
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How about just the CWS?
Ratings increased from the year before.
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