How to Pick a Youth Baseball Bat
” This happens to be a wooden bat , most youth players in this day and age use a metal bat because they’re, tend to be lighter, and more manageable. The bat is measured both in inches and in ounces. So if a bat is a thirty two, thirty one, or a minus three, that’s, means that the length of the bat is a thirty two inch bat and it’s a twenty nine ounce bat, so that would be a minus three bat. Most players, especially young in age, from six or eight on up until ten or twelve, would tend to use bats that have a larger drop in the ounces. A minus eleven bat for instance would be if it were a thirty inch bat, would be a nineteen ounce bat. So when you hear minus three, minus ten, minus eleven that means it’s the differential between the length of the bat and the ounces of the bat. Usually the smaller the player the more minus there is, the lighter the bat is and usually the larger the player the heavier the bat would be. Most players in the high school level on up until they start using wood
