Posted by: vince (vlc648@yahoo.com) on Fri Mar 14 13:29:33 2008

I agree that you are spending too much money on a bat right now. Your son also needs a shorter bat. My son is a nine year old entering his 4th year of little league and this is the first year I've bought him a bat that costs more than $50. He is about 3" taller and 10 lbs. heavier than your son right now and he is swinging a 28" 16oz. bat. A lighter bat that isn't shorter also doesn't help a whole lot in getting the end of the bat aroud. It helps some but the way I try to explain it to parents is the bat is a spoke on the wheel and the longer the spoke the longer it takes to make a full rotation.

> My son who's 7 1/2, 4.3 & 60 pnds a contact hitter & plays coach pitch . I ordered him a 28/16 Easton BT250 CXN COMP for the extra pop when he hits. I have taken him to the batting cages and have thrown live pitches to him. It seems as he is either fouling allot ( last year he was dead on) or just missing the ball and it is making him frustrated.
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> I have decided that the bat might be to big for him and that it could be used next year.
> So now I would like to get him another bat and am having a hard time finding the right one.
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> Here is what I had in mind please offer suggestions. The rules state that he has to use a 2 1/4 barrel. One other thing is that they are using a softer ball think its a number 5 (not a tee ball) but its not a hard ball either.
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> Here are the bats I had in mind.
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> 2008 YB84 Louisville Slugger TPX Omaha Composite Youth League Baseball Bat -12 ..27/15 and cost 165.00
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> 2008 Combat Throttle Youth League 27/15 Composite cost 140.00
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> 2005 or 2006 (yellow)Louisville YB106 Catalyst Youth Baseball Bat 100.00 28/15
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> Louisville Slugger TPX Maverick composite: YB89M Youth 27/17 80.00
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> I am leaning toward the Throttle or the YB84 but I would like suggestions from people who might have had experience with some of these bats.
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> Thanks for all of the help.