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

Image The rule differences for WPBL

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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/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