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Here's a good article about what changed in the bats. At the end of the article it compares offensive production at the start of last year with that of this year. Interesting.

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So the MLB bat is solid wood and now college is solid alloy. Which reduces the energy of the ball upon contact and reduces the 'trampoline' effect which in the past springs the ball back out with greater energy than the new bats. Also, the new solid alloy bats don't have the thin aluminum walls around a hollow core (which allow for the spring action). Remember the awesome sounds at the CWS of the bat making the 'ping' sound over and over on highlights. I loved those sights and sounds at the CWS. Now that noise is dilluted and the pop is as well...ouch.
 
Why not just go back to wood bats? They are required in the pros. Cost? What did they do before aluminum bats? Colleges have more money now than then. I personally would love to bury aluminum bats. Bury them, then bury the shovel.
 
I'm with CedarPark - let's do away with aluminum/composite bats altogether and play with wooden bats. While we're at it, let's do away with the DH and let the pitchers bat.

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The common reason is wood bats are too expensive as teams tend to burn through them during the year. So, while a wood bat is cheaper than a composite bat, 50 wood bats are more expensive than 20 composite. For UT, this wouldn't be a problem, however they can't use wood if their opponents won't.

For years there has been a push to have MLB pay for the wood bats for college ball, but for some reason they haven't/won't.
 
Bring the PING back. If I wanted to go watch and hear drowned out bats I'd go fall asleep at an Astros game.
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When/if wooden bats take over the college game...well I don't even want to think about it as alot would change for my enthusiasm. The bat differences in college and pro are a huge reason I favor the college game greatly. Oh well, I'm sure we all have our own opinions on this.
 
^People played baseball (successfully) for a great number of years before aluminum bats were invented. The major leagues seem to hit plenty of home runs with wooden bats. Why is that not good enough?

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I guess it's just a younger generation thing. Im in mid 30's, and grew up with aluminum bats. Never played a real game with a wooden bat. Every league I know of before majors used aluminum bats in my lifetime. Which means countless more people over the last 30+ years know baseball as an aluminum bat sport. The number of games we've played in and seen in person with aluminum bats since childhood far outnumbers that of wooden. And when I watch an MLB game the difference is negatively noticeable right away. However, that being said, I wouldn't want MLB guys to use aluminum bats. The safety issue with the skill and power on that level would cause havoc. Yet I've watched 100's of live college baseball games in my day and not seen an overwhelming rise in safety incidents to make a change to drown out the bats (except for the 90's when it got obscene, and since changes were made that seem adequate to me, before this year). At least it never seemed much more dangerous than I was used to years ago. It's a dangerous game with hard objects hurling around. Injuries and incedents will happen, It just never appeared to seem excessive to me or demanding of a change.
 
These may be safer than the alumium bats, until you get lulled into thinking it won't hurt. When the UT players play summer ball at Cape Cod they have to use wood bats. So just use the wood bats! Bring back some dirt.
 
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