BESR Bats

Aluminum bats have been around since 1973. They have progressed as the years have gone by, and have gotten lighter, faster, and have been given a larger sweet spot. But 12 years ago the BESR standard was introduced; this was the first restriction put on performance rather than just banning a type of bat. In my mind that means that it should be considered a “prototype”, or test in a sense, and was meant to be refined in the future. That refinement of BESR ended up as the BBCOR standard. We should use BBCOR instead of BESR bats in every league, because of performance, more accurate restrictions and no allowance of progressive bat improvement. One of the reasons we should use BBCOR bats in replacement of BESR bats in all leagues, is because BBCOR bats perform more like wood bats. This is because of numerous reasons, the most prominent being that the BBCOR standard encompasses the trampoline effect. This is when the bat bends back building up force and launches the ball forward in a way similar to someone jumping on a trampoline. This effect being lessened causes the speed of the ball off the bat to be decreased. This translates to less homeruns since they have less power, because at the college level they saw a decrease from about .945 homeruns per game a year before BBCOR to .48 homeruns after BBCOR (acs.psu.edu). Also with the bat …show more content…
This will reduce the number of injuries caused by dwindling reaction times. The decreased reaction time can be especially dangerous for pitchers who are the closest to the batter. On the other hand, it could also be argued that the performance increase can’t be too drastic since we have continued to use these bats for 12 years without noticing this defect. But I believe the performance increase may not have been as drastic before people noticed its presence and began to exploit