So many broken bats in baseball

[treece]

These ash bats are shtty, they should go back to maple bats. Everytime I watch a baseball game theres like 10 broken bats. Yesterday that guy got hit in the neck with the bat. Today I'm watching the Red Sox game the guy fouls off a pitch and the bat breaks.

[SBR Lou]

I've been reading it's actually the Maple Bats which are being broken like Gulbis in the 3rd set up 5-1 tonight.

It's annoying to watch happen nonetheless.

[mtneer1212]

Maple shatters -- ash splinters. MLB is trying to avoid banning maple in mid-season, but look for them to be banned after the end of the year for next year.

[flyingillini]

Maple shatters -- ash splinters. MLB is trying to avoid banning maple in mid-season, but look for them to be banned after the end of the year for next year.

Maple is cheaper

[InTheHole]

Lighter....thinner handles

[treece]

The bat companies are making a killing.

[Tsoprano]

Espeically with Johnny Damon, pretty sure he broke one again tonight, the bats sure were happy when he was on the DL list. Now its open season for wood again!

[Willie Bee]

I can solve the broken bat problem real easy. Just like they limit golfers to 13 or 14 (can't remember which) clubs in their bag for a round, you limit teams to how many they can have in their bat rack to start a game, maybe four or five max, something like that. That would stop the thin-handle manufacturing in an instant, and that would halt a good 75% or more of the broken bats.

[pavyracer]

I can solve the broken bat problem real easy. Just like they limit golfers to 13 or 14 (can't remember which) clubs in their bag for a round, you limit teams to how many they can have in their bat rack to start a game, maybe four or five max, something like that. That would stop the thin-handle manufacturing in an instant, and that would halt a good 75% or more of the broken bats.

Why don't we just give them 2x4's instead to bat with.