DOES PRICE MATTER ON WOOD BATS? | $40 vs. $60 vs. $80 vs. $160 vs. $300 Wood Bat Review
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- Today we will attempt to answer one of the more controversial questions in the wood bat industry...
Do you really need to be paying $200 for a wood bat?
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@@Colliholic you cant see dislikes tho
I know you have a lot of BBCOR viewers, but I am so here for the wood bat content. There are so many turn models and wood bat companies and your videos always give a great starting point before purchase. Appreciate all that you do boss.
Agreed
Legit
Im always waiting for a wood video to drop cuz they the best
Wood > BBCOR
Totally agree with you!!! There’s no sound or feeling like a wood bat!!
Augusta apartment resident: "Look honey, we got batting practice going on.....oh crap, it's Will with a Baum bat, RUN."
13:08 Shoutout to those two people for being chill about it!
they probably came out like "how the hell did this guy hit a ball so far"
My question is why is there an apartment building so close to a baseball field?
@@Williewill05 free baseball is the incentive to rent. the windows are ball-proof.
@@Williewill05it’s made to over look the games I believe. There are many like that
@@Williewill05thats same question for the warehouse behind camden yards
I think Will has gotten to the point where just any bat is good in his hands
Bat performance is always gonna be relative to whoever is swinging it, but everyone should experience a similar % difference between good bats and bad bats. These 5 bats just happen to all be GREAT bats lol. Price doesn't always reflect performance.
@@baseballbatbrosdoes it also depend on where your swinging? Like do you swing different in warmer climate or colder?
Highly agree!! I can remake this video using the exact same bats Will swung, and they will all suck!
@@justinbellman3263 with that mindset they'll suck. Change that mindset and you might surprise yourself.
Just watch. The $40 bat will be priced at $125 tomorrow after everyone watches this video.
Now you need to buy 3-4 $40 bats and see if you can notice a difference. Maybe the higher price tag is just quality control!
That's a huge part. Grains vary wildly on cheaper bats.
I agree, it’s a wood billet, turned.
You can save yourself a lot of money just by knowing what to look for in the wood, and the cheaper bats generally only have a clear coat which makes this easier. Lots of thinner grains means denser, more mature wood that will (generally) have a bit more power, while wider grains will be softer, younger wood with potentially slightly less power but be a bit more durable.
If you are talking Ash specifically wider grains are much more durable than those with more grains per square inch and will last longer, because the wood is stronger. I have one with 8 grains and it's been a workhorse. Have also had some with more than twice as many grains and have broken very, very quickly. The price is the same by model so you're better off hunting for the bats with fewer grains. I can't say if this is true for maple and birch but I've had one birch bat and it broke in game #1.
you should buy some more of the $40 ones and see how consistently good they are
An agronomist buddy told me that Ash is coming back because we now have pesticides that work on the Emerald Ash Borer. Those bugs took out generations of ash forests for baseball bat use, but some of the newer planted stuff that’s been ash-borer free has started to mature to where they can be forested and milled into bats. Perhaps Slugger has some of this stuff that would have been used in higher grade bats handy now.
I enjoy Ash but it would be hard to go back after hitting with Birch.
in high school i broke my $150 wood in a game. went to dicks right after and got the $40 louisville as an emergency bat. it was so good that i ended up only swinging them for the rest of the summer
I loved the feel of mine but I had bad luck and broke two in back to back at bats a couple years ago 😅
I think what actually happened is the price gap between the “high” and “low” grade wood has broadened in the last 4 years. Those cheaper bats haven’t changed in price but the signature models are up nearly $50. Went from $110-$130 to $160-$200.
Fun fact: the Marucci gamer wood bats are just a big pool of all of the turn models like the AP5 or the cutch, etc. but they didn’t meet quality standards. So they just paint em all back and slap the gamer tag on em lmao. You can literally get any turn model if you know what your looking for 😁😂
A new bat madness of any kind would be amazing Will. I am not going to lie, I have rewatched the olds one over and over again. Do all of them in one hybrids composites and alloy in a 64 bat tourney. That would truly be peak madness!!!!!!
+1
Yeah, a massive tournament that is basically 4 in one, 16 bbcor bats, 16 usssa bats, 16 wood bats, and 16 usa bats or smth, then the winners face off
1:50 the crack of an ash bat. Sounds like my childhood. ❤
The baseball bat bros have helped me learn so much about baseball bats from BBCOR to USSSA to USA. Thank you you inspire me.
“There wood bats guys. They’re all trees!” Put it on a t-shirt. Lmao
I had a teammate in HS hockey 10+ years ago, everyone on the team had $150-200 composite sticks and he had $20 sherwoods and said "sure my stick might break 3x a season, but it's just as good as yours" and that $40 bat reminded me of that.
13:08 they passed the vibe check
I wish you could do another bat testing video w/ four or five of the $40 bats randomly picked up from different stores, so that we knew whether it was just a fluke that you happened to buy a good one or whether the bat quality was universally consistent.
So much knowledge, thorough testing, genuine observations and the courage to tell it like it really is. Excellent work !
Man, love these videos keep it up
Thanks for these wood bat showdowns Will! The $40 LS bat we’ve had for years but never used it with Hittrax. We’re going to have to try it out now!
Love ur vids man, keep up the good work
It’s not the bat it’s the hitter, and it’s great that there is a range of bat prices. The people who buy the nicer expensive looking bats pay for the companies to sell cheaper models and still make money. Great video showing that all wood bats will get it done.
Love the content ❤ keep up the great content
You know it’s a great day when the baseball bat bros upload
LET'S GO $40 LS!!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!
There's just something about the crack of a wood bat vs the ping of a metal that I LOVE.
More wood bat content again brother! I had a Old Rawlings Ash Big Stick. I felt out all of them in the store and then finally found one with nicer straight and wide thick ash grains and I picked that one. Lasted me 14 years! Anyone looking at Ash bats, look for wide and straight grains leading up to the end of the bat. If they are thin and have a lot of grains and they are crooked then keep looking.
The way your swing has gotten so smooth it’s hard to not want every bat you touch
Love the wood bat vids. Especially for us older folks
Hey Guys, thanks for this video! I always asked the same thing when looking for a bat for my adult rec league. Really appreciate the insight.
Love the wood bat content like this bring it back
52 years old and never played baseball. But for some reason I watch all of your videos. Not even a baseball fan. Crazy.
He's entertaining and has a positive attitude. I haven't played baseball in 20 years. Rarely watch pros on TV. But I watch every video on this channel.
I love the bat grips you put on the bats and you guys made me buy the 2024 ICON and I came so close to hitting a ball 350
Picked my 11 year old up a Rake for his birthday a month ago so I was looking forward to seeing this review. It's been a great bat so far and he hits it better at times than his other alloy bats.
The main drawback to the random non pro cut bats is that it seems to be a gamble on the bat is quality/density and weight distribution. Where as the pro cut bat are sure to be great wood and u can choose the pro model that gives u the weight distribution u want.
Dude, i fuçkin love this channel.
Can confirm - have a Maple Louisville C271 from the Cape that is absolutely amazing ... now probably a better grain than you're going to get off the shelf at Dicks but my favorite wood I've swung. Keep up the great work these videos are awesome
Hey Will I'd love to see a video tour of the new facility and why you bought it and what your plans are for it in the future. Love your work bro!
This is THE BEST bat bros vid 😂
just saw the yt short 😭 that hit with the $40 was so tuff
The peeps at 13:08. So cool about it. Can’t tell, but it looks like they left the drapes open and watched you hit some more. That’s awesome!
If it was me i’d walk out on the balcony and holler out if i can take some “daddy hacks” lol.
Love your wood bat videos. You guys are so much fun and are destroyer of baseballs. I’ve always tried saying this to youth players, a lot of these woods are excellent and feel great, especially the balanced woods, it’s just things happen, bats break
I like your content, it's usually very informative and to the point As a weekend amateur in pickup games, there would be no shame in getting 4 of the $40 bats, and enjoying the weekend
If you're in competition play from high school to semi-pro, you might pay more for the durability
But this video has proven that for wood bats, unless at professional level testing standards, price is relative, and weight and feel are the most important factors
For anyone curious, those $40 bats from LS oftentimes were made for specific MLB players. I broke one last year that was supposed to be used by Kyle Schwarber but wasn’t up to par with what he wanted out of the bat. So LS decided to just sell the bat rather than lose out on the money. If you go to the LS Factory, you might just get lucky to find one.
No, those models are called “Pro Cuts”, the $40 LS bats are just your run of the mill Ash ones
That was amazing! That Ash bat tore it up! I want to see you swin the Camwood Eurobeech!
I’ve been waiting for your next video. Just got the clout ai after watching the video. Thank you so much
My HS kid who gets 90mph ev with aluminum breaking 2 Rawlings 70$ wood bats in a month. They werent even terrible swings.
Obviously this man is extremely skilled at finding barrels.
Thanks for the great content Gents!
I can say confendently that one of those 40 dollar ones are incredible and the best 40 dollar bat you will get
My son's first year playing summer collegiate wood bat league, I paid big bucks for a Louisville Slugger Prime 110 turn model in birch. Lasted less than 2 games before shattering. Replaced it with a Rawlings "Big Stick Elite" for $60 less. That thing hit bombs for almost 3 seasons.
I'm in my 40s and haven't played baseball since little league. I don't even watch or keep up with baseball. However, I love every video that is posted on this channel. Keep it up guys!
I would love to see you guys review an Outlaw Bat. All sorts of models available with customization for under $100. I swing a birch 73 model in 34/30 from them and I love it.
I have the 32" LS bat and it's the heaviest of the 4 I have at 934 grams! I have a 34" Marucci at 889 grams, 33" Victus maple 863 grams & 33" B45 Birch at 845 grams. That's a pretty big difference in weight! And you can feel it!
Any way you could get your hands on some pro bats and swing them in comparison to these bats and the bats in the last video?
I use a $40 Louisville Slugger in the cage for BP and it holds up 😁 11:34
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This vid answered the question that I was asking myself
You are in my town Bat Bros! You should come to the Greenjackets game tonight!
Accidentally bought the rake thinking it was a remake of the gamer cuz I’ve swung that every summer for four years and loved it not realizing it was a “cage bat”. Swings fine only difference I’ve noticed is it has a smaller barrel profile which obviously has its downsides for getting barrels
Bro at the Greenjackets !! Let’s go I love like 10 mins from there !! Augusta baby !!
It's like Will said..the weights can vary more with wood bats and more specifically the cheaper wood bats. I've weighed drop three 32" wood bats that were heavier than drop three 33" bats of the same brand. But you can do what I did and buy a scale to weigh them and use a 1.5" wood boring drill bit on the end to remove enough material to get the desired bat weight. But be ready to remove/drill down a ways just to remove an ounce or two of weight.
Will, can you do a video where you hit all the random bats like Anderson, Tucci, Mizuno, Adidas, etc... Maybe there's a diamond in the rough
@baseballbatbros I tell everyone whenever I have a demo day - Don’t sleep on ash! With a good piece of it it’s as hot as anything else. Feel is a bit different and can take some getting used to but it’s still my favorite to hit with 🔥 If you know what to look for, you can find some killer deals for ash bats right now. Big 5 has a ton of them.
I honestly think that one of the reasons ash is perceived to have no durability is because players nowadays don’t really know how to hit with it. With maple and birch, you can get away with hitting on all sides of the bat. As long as you always hit on the end grains (straight lines, label up or down), ash bats can actually last quite a while. I still make plenty of them and still use one as my gamer
Love you guys! Let me come by sometime and take some hacks!!!
I was wanting to get into hardball, but was turned away from the prices of some bats. This review gave me the confidence to just go out and get a cost effective one, thank you.
Baum bat is the way to go tbh, and they have resale value in case it doesn't work out.
@@arzdbacksfann38 the whole thing is I can’t afford the baum bat
I wish I knew y'all were coming to SRP Park!!! This would have been amazing to see.
I just got the Axe composite bat off of Amazon to use in my men’s league. I also have the Baum Bat gold, but wanted to try the Axe bat. Would love to see you try this Axe bat as there weren’t many videos online about them!
It would be interesting to get 5 of each bat and see the difference. Cool video, Bro. Cheers🎉🎉🎉
Back in like 13U when there was a wood bat tourney, I would go to Dicks sporting goods and buy 2-3 of those cheap $30-40 ash bats. Always did the trick and wasn’t worried too much if it broke
I own the Louisville slugger and the marucci gamer. Hitting .650 in men’s league with both. Highly recommend
I have that exact same Louisville Slugger Genuine Ash bat. At $40-$50 you could buy 3 or 4 of them for one of the others. It's a great bat
Dope setting. I knew a window would be in peril right away. Lol.
The low price is probably due to their quality control level and consistency of wood supplies and samples. Im speculating.
Im a soccer guy and I liked the cheapest cleats. But as goalie, I liked the move expensive gloves tho, and they fell apart fast. The better the grip, the faster the wear. But I liked cleats with a rounder toe tip, because I had to punt the ball a lot, instead of diving for it (safer). Those are usually cheap and old school. Still could dribble and all the footie stuff(like,dribble past a whole team, I was rested being on net vs teammates on the pitch). They worked just fine vs the premium cleats.
So its probably the quality control the bumps the price and marketing…
But I’m a baseball fan tho. I broke the curse when I started watching the sox!
I wrote this before the first 15 seconds of the vid.
You can get lucky and unlucky at any price point. I’ve had an AM22 break in one swing, and a $40 Louisville last 2 years. Go by feel, and buy in store
I bought a pro prime for my son’s tournament. Worked great in the cage for 2 weeks. Cracked in his first live at bat come game time.
When I was about 32 years old I almost hit one out of Comera Park in Detroit batting under the lights with Dave Rozema pitching BP. I hit the warning track and I used a rock maple bat I got and I know it wasn't much over $100-$120 at the time. This was 2014.
Would love to see a comparison of the same model of wood bat! You mentioned you might have just picked up a one in a million super hot bat, why not buy 5/6 of them from different places and find out?
King of juco vs will in live ab’s?
That would be so funny😂
Always love seeing lefty will make an appearance 💪
WILL YOU'RE HITTING BOMBSSSS! Love that swing brotha!
Hits their window and they stay outside to watch the show. They seem like chill people to hang out with 😂😂
I had the lousiville ash bat for a cage bat and tee bat, the minute I used it on the field I realized the juice it had, it did eventually break but great bat for $40.
We need a grip tutorial for the bats i don’t know how to grip the knob of my wood bag
I’ve owned so many of those cheap Louisvilles there amazing bats a few times I’ve had them be a bit wonky but they hold up really well.
Great vid🔥
The bat packs from JustBats were life savers for my semi pro league.
5 bats for the price of 1 Gucci bat, got the job done; except for the bamboo ones, those were generally always not super fun to swing.
I played a summer in the Cape, Baum bats were the norm!
I love this guy’s swing.
Yo will!! Like the content, try usssa showdown. Make sure to include juco!
Cool video. Shortest pro park Left field I’ve ever seen. Left power alley is barely 350
I bought the $40 bat at my Academy, because like many people, I love the sound and feel of a wood bat! So all I got was the baby blue version of the “genuine” and put some white lizard skins tape on it! This video shows that money can be spent on expensive stuff, yet there is a cheaper option that performs just as good!!!
Your videos are awesome. Just watching you has made my 7-year old a better hitter. He's talking about exit velo now.
Would love to see you guys try more turn models. Always see those big name player turn models and the 271 but what about the other ones we don't see as often? Maybe you can find some sleeper turn models for contact or power hitters among those lesser known turn models.
You gotta look at previous videos, they've done a lot on this.
People don't understand, wood is still wood!!! Price tag makes 0 difference!! Great video guys
You should do a review on the axe avenge pro 3
Killing us with the Louisville pronunciation Will!!!
I used to use the cheap Louisvilles in Highschool as well as the black rawlings Adirondacks. They we're even cheaper at the time so I just used to buy them in multiples. Loved the sound and feel too much of real baseball to ever use anything but woods.
Y’all should do the same thing at the same field and do it with USSSA and see if you can see if you can hit it on top of the apartments
Banger good job will🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love that that couple got up and just watched after you hit their apartment
I picked up a $40 dollar Louisville slugger took one swing in game broken bat single
Ended up being a very expensive single
I was using one in an indy season and it lasted over 80 AB only the wood started to split in the barrel after a while, but for 40$ is great
I only used the cheap bats in the batting cage. I would spend probably $80 on a game bat
@@dexterity___ I had a free bat I used for over 2 seasons it was my only bat it. It finally broke and I ordered 3 more of the same bat got it for so cheap because no one likes the model. Like $90 for three bats
That $40 dollar bat was a buy while I was waiting for the 3 replacements. I still have all the replacements a decade later.
I broke my r2k1 and rawlings 325 in about the same amount of time, about a 40$ difference, I think just get what you can afford.
@@rellsogorgeous yep would be nice to
Be able get different models in a $40 price tag to see how the feel of different models