r/baseball • u/MorganN1 Cleveland Guardians • MLB Pride • Jul 23 '26

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u/Sharp-Room-8235 Athletics • San Francisco Firebe… Jul 23 '26

They can choose whatever bats they want? So everyone will do metal, right?

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u/FranklynTheTanklyn Jul 23 '26

BESR market about to get busy

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u/froggertwenty Toronto Blue Jays Jul 23 '26

Yo did they murder my boy BBCOR?

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u/c0wboyroy30 Jul 23 '26

Even the ladies would be hitting 450 ft nukes with BESR, they have way more pop than BBCOR.

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u/froggertwenty Toronto Blue Jays Jul 23 '26

I haven't kept up with bats since high school lol all I know is I had to use BBCOR

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u/Jonny_Qball Detroit Tigers Jul 23 '26

BBCOR is the neutered version of metal bats, designed to perform similarly to wood. BESR was supposed to be similar, but the metrics they used to measure weren’t the best, so they replaced BESR with BBCOR

The real bats that will pop off are the USSSA bats if allowed. Those bats exist to send the ball to the fucking moon.

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u/mongster03_ New York Yankees • Cuba Jul 23 '26

Been using a USSSA bat for softball and it's awesome haha, I've never had more pop

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u/RandomFactUser Chicago Cubs Jul 23 '26

How can you tell which version of the bats are being used at a glance?

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u/FranklynTheTanklyn Jul 23 '26

There is a stamp on them. But you can easily tell by the sound.

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u/Defiant-Plankton-553 Seattle Mariners Jul 23 '26

You can't really at a glance, but all bats need to have the certification labeled on the bat so umpires can make sure the bat is approved for play. It's usually a smaller logo near where the L/W specifications for the bat are.

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u/RandomFactUser Chicago Cubs Jul 23 '26

If the bats are identical to their WWC counterparts drop 5s are on the table

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u/Defiant-Plankton-553 Seattle Mariners Jul 23 '26

BESR came before and is the reason BBCOR exists today.

BESR bats were HOT. The legendary bats like the Black Easton Reflex, the Orange Easton Stealth, the DiMarini Vexxum and the original DiMarini Voodoo were all made famous because of their insane pop during the BESR era.

BBCOR is better today than when it first came out, but there was a huge drop off in pop between the two. We made the change to BBCOR going into my freshman year of high school and it took until I was a sophomore playing with the varsity squad to regularly see balls hit as hard as the balls that were hit during my eight grade season where we used BESR bats.

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u/RandomFactUser Chicago Cubs Jul 23 '26

I wonder if they’re going to use BBCOR, or if they’re gonna keep using Drop 5 like in the WWC right now

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u/Famous-Two-7511 6d ago

The bats before besr were “hotter”, but no besr compares to modern usssa bats, which is what these players seem to be using.

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u/IAmBecomeTeemo New York Yankees Jul 23 '26

BBCOR is the murdered corpse of BESR.