Metal Or Wood In College Baseball?

[Keeper]

Age-old debate. Do you think college baseball should use wood bats or metal bats?

 

I say wood is good. Metal is fine for high school, but I think it's dangerous for 18-22 year olds. I know I wouldn't want to be a pitcher in college! The wood would also separate the men from the boys.

 

I've heard that D-2 and D-3 baseball is pretty boring with wood. If that's the case, I would be willing to compromise and have the wood implemented only for D-1. Of course, that could be somewhat problematic, as you'd have a few D-1 caliber players electing to play D-2 for the metal bat.

 

However, if I'm a scout and I see a D-1 caliber player doing that, I immediately think he's afraid of gettng exposed with the wood, and in my mind, that player's value goes down. Obviously, there are some exceptions. The advantage of playing at a junior college is you can get drafted earlier. So, you already have some D-1 talent there for that reason.

 

I'd still take wood in D-1 only over the status quo, though. The metal poses a serious threat to pitchers and sometimes gives scouts a false or distorted impression of hitters.

 

I guarantee there would be fewer busts in the earlier rounds if D-1 implemented the wood.

[Dojji]

The more likely you are to have players in your division with big league ambition, the more you should probably use wood IMHO.

[italstallianion]

Wood in all levels, for the exact same reasons I want to install the "2 feet down" rule in college football; to make the college game more like the pro's.

[Ray10]

Wood in college for sure. I still think once you hit High School is should be wood. Metal bats get dangerous.

[msubulldogs21]

Definitely wood in college.

 

Seeing how the ball just jumps off the metal bat and whizzes by pitchers heads is freaking scary sometimes. I wasn't a pitcher during high school, and even then I was glad about that. I think it's going to take a Bryce Florie type situation (or worse) before they decide to possibly integrate wood bats in the college game.

 

When I was in high school obviously we used metal bats, but we also played in several wood bat tournaments and it was actually pretty fun, a nice challenge. It definitely was tougher as you don't get the bloops like you would if you were using metal, but it was a fun experience anyway.