Question by : In Professional baseball, why are wooden bats used, but aluminum bats are not allowed?
Despite the fact that wooden baseball bats crack and break, why are they used in Major League baseball, but aluminum bats are not allowed? Could’nt more home runs be hit if aluminum bats were used? After all, they can’t crack or break like wooden bats do. Most of the excitement from baseball is watching home runs sailing out of the stadium, not from seeing someone ducking for cover trying to get out of the way of a cracked, or broken half of a bat flying in their direction.
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Answer by NatetheBoss
They’ve always used wooden bats so it might be a tradition thing. Also, having aluminum bats would turn a linedrive double into a home run and pitchers would be ruined. Another thing is that all of the home runs would have to be asterisked because aluminum bats have way more pop than wooden ones.
Answer by Nate
Three reasons. Two are practical, one is aesthetc.
The first practical reason is that aluminum bats can hit the ball very fast and hard. Since pitchers stand a mere 60 feet from the hitters, there is a chance that a pitcher could be injured by a ball that comes at him too fast to get out of the way or catch it.
The other practical reason has to do with gameplay. Aluminum bats lead to longer fly balls and home runs. Modern baseball parks are designed for wooden bats. If aluminum bats were allowed, teams would have to move their fences back to accomodate the increased hitting ability. Or else they’d have to live with hitters socking 60+ homers a year and a lot more 10-8 scores. It would completely alter the face of the game.
The aesthetic reason has to do with baseball’s tradition. For 150+ years, people have enjoyed the sound of the crack of the bat. Wooden bats are part of the historic beauty of the game. Fans and players alike would be in open revolt if MLB allowed wooden bats in such a major departure from years of tradition.
Answer by rudy
for one batting averages would go way up… since these guys are poroffessional hitters
Answer by baudkarma
Baseball bats really don’t break that often. There’s been a big uptick in the past couple of years because maple bats have become popular, and they’re a lot more fragile, and splinter a lot worse the the traditional bats made of ash wood. Hopefully baseball will outlaw maple bats.
Meanwhile, the problem with aluminum is that the ball comes off the bat a lot faster. Major league pitchers barely have time to react to a hard-hit ball in their direction as it is. If you give hitters aluminum bats, you’re either going to need to protect pitchers with one of those funky nets like they use in the home run derby, or you’re going to have to replace pitchers on a regular basis because they took a baseball on the arm or leg or head.
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