As expected, the new NCAA specifications for bats that took effect this season have resulted in less power at the plate in college baseball.<\/p>\n

This article<\/a> talks about what\u2019s going on \u2013 and takes a look ahead to next year, when these bat guidelines<\/a> are extended to high school baseball.<\/p>\n

Opinions are mixed, but we think<\/a> less power is a fair trade-off for increased safety. And it may even make for more interesting, nuanced baseball games.<\/p>\n

What do you think<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected, the new NCAA specifications for bats that took effect this season have resulted in less power at the plate in college baseball. This article talks about what\u2019s going on \u2013 and takes a look ahead to next year, when these bat guidelines are extended to high school baseball. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}