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. "A good amount of my players started using them in batting practice at the end of the season, because both their game and BP bats were beat up," Dunedin High School's head baseball coach Tom Hilbert said. "And the way the ball comes off the bat — the sound and lack of distance is amazing."  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 …

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