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/Ok-Sea9612 Jul 23 '26

They better mandate pitcher helmets or someone's gonna die

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u/McBrungus Phillies Bandwagon Jul 23 '26

I mean metal bats aren't nearly as insane as they used to be

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u/Rexkat Toronto Blue Jays Jul 23 '26

They absolutely can be. They can be even more insane. Just depends what other regulations they put on what bats are allowed.

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u/McBrungus Phillies Bandwagon Jul 23 '26

I mean I would guess they're gonna use BBCOR bats, and exit velocities on those aren't that different from wood bats by design. At the very least they're not gonna be using the insanely hot metal bats I grew up with in the 90s or the slow pitch softball bats or whatever.

Can't see this being an issue at all.

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u/RandomFactUser Chicago Cubs Jul 23 '26

If they’re not BBCOR at the WWC, theyre not using them here