High School Baseball Gets A Step Closer to Wooden Bats
In an effort to more closely emulate wooden bats and eliminate a banned process called “rolling," the FHSAA approved a measure to allow only bats created by a new process.
High school baseball in Florida will officially switch from using the current aluminum alloy bats to BBCOR bats next year. The bats already are in use by the NCAA. BBCOR stands for Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution. Basically, it’s the bounce-back or trampoline effect the bat’s surface has when the ball makes contact with it. Imagine dropping a tennis ball onto a tennis racket. It bounces much higher than if it were bounced on the ground. The different aluminum alloys used to make bats have this bounce-back or trampoline effect. The result is that hitters get better drive and lift on the ball than they would with a wooden bat. In an effort to more closely emulate wooden bats and eliminate a banned process called “rolling," the Florida …
