Your complete guide to baseball bats
Last year, Easton announced the arrival of their Easton Power Sensor. But what exactly is it? Simply put, it’s a tool that they claim will help diagnose your swing and improve your approach at the plate. It’s a mobile app with video capture, and a bat attachment that tracks a batter’s swing. […]
As we follow the bats of the World Series closely for our Bat Series feature, it’s interesting to see the details of the bats each of the players use. And thanks to modern HDTV, we can get some pretty amazing closeups – like this one of Salvador Perez’s Marcucci bat inscribed with […]
Marucci Bats provided us exclusive insight into the home run stats of the #PostSeason up until the #WorldSeries. The stats, of course, of the bats! (If you want player stats, there are plenty of websites for that.) The Bat Brands with the most Home Runs in the 2015 Postseason First […]
If you follow BaseballBats.net on Twitter and Facebook, you already know that we love pictures of #SexyBats. Bats on baseball cards? Yes! Animated GIFs of bats? Awesome! Bat closeups? Can’t beat ’em! Personalized and customized bats? They’re the best! In this gallery, to welcome perhaps the most customizable bats in the […]
It’s official! The Winners of the Silver Slugger Award, which we covered last month, have been announced! And although the the MLB playoffs are in full swing and 650 players are sitting home, disappointed, two of those players just received the good news. Miguel Cabrera of the American League’s Detroit Tigers, and Dee Gordon of the National League’s […]
For a unique spin on the ol’ 30/30 Club, The Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo has not just hit 30 Home Runs, but tonight he also achieved his 30th hit-by-pitch. According to Major League Baseball, only one other player in MLB since 1914 has hit at least 30 homers while enduring […]
Update: MLB Coaches have voted on the winners — Miguel Cabrera and Dee Gordon. You can read more about it on our updated Silver Bat Award blog post. Every year since 1980, Louisville Slugger has presented the “Silver Slugger Awards” to award the top offensive players at each position from both […]
Strangely enough, superstition is key in sports, almost on par with good equipment, talent, and practice. It can affect a team’s entire demeanor during a game when “bad luck” strikes. When bad luck strikes, breaking the streak is a must. Case in point? The Angels and one baseball bat. During […]
Here at BaseballBats.net we love a great bat trick. But who knew the rest of the Internet did, too!? The Vine video below of a Texas softball player is trending on Vine and Facebook, with the video being viewed nearly 30 million times! See for yourself. We bet you watch […]
The Wall Street Journal Shows Us How Louisville Slugger Makes Their Famous Bats The “MLB Prime” wood bat, made by Louisville Slugger, is made of sugar maple. The process begins with the bat running through a locatelli CNC Lathe, which cuts the wood into a bat shape. Next the bat […]