Posted by: Tom Waz (sluggoking@msn.com) on Wed Aug 4 09:59:43 2004

I haven't been in the market for a baseball bat for some time, while looking around I'm noticing a lot of the bats have a -12 or -7 on them, I was hoping for an explaination of what this number represents. I'm guessing it has something to do with weight distribution but I'm not real sure. Thanks in advance.
> Brandon

This indirectly gives the weight of the bat. A -12 bat weighs 12 ounces less than its length. a 30/-12 weighs 18 ounces....a 31/-12 weighs 19 ounces. - Tom Waz