Isn’t it true that manufacturers make more money from the sale of aluminum bats than the sale of wood bats?
A. While some aluminum bats may be much more expensive than a single wood bat, it is widely agreed that teams would spend far more over the course of an entire season buying wood bats than aluminum ones because wood bats break. One story in COLLEGIATE BASEBALL, the official publication of the American Baseball Coaches Association, was quoted as stating, “Going to an all-wood format could raise the cost of bats six times higher than current expenses.” When considered from that perspective, a bat company could make more money from the sale of wood than from aluminum.
