Posts Tagged ‘high school baseball’

Safety and the Aluminum Bat vs. Wood Bat Debate

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

At high schools and colleges across the nation, the debate about aluminum bat safety continues. Play Ball USA and Ron Cacini offer helpful words in this video. Cacini doesn’t try to convince you of an answer to the alumnium vs. wood question. Instead, he explains that it’s proper technique, bat weight, and bat length, that will help boost safety for those whose leagues use aluminum bats. He gives a general explanation of bat exit speed ratio. Cacini doesn’t talk much about wood bats, so it does have an air of advocating for aluminum.

For a casual video shoot in a batting cage, the former Houston farmhand really has a decent swing.