Posted by: mike28nc (mikelamb68@hotmail.com) on Tue Jun 13 23:01:17 2006

> My 9 year old is on a travel team. He and his dad picked out a new bat yesterday. Its a 30/17. My son loves it. When one of his coaches saw it he commented that it was too big. His sone uses a 29 /19. In my opinion the inch in length is not such a big deal and my sons bat is lighter. But the coach keeps commenting and has now made it an issue for my son. We can get him a new one and put the other bat away for a year but i wanted another opinion before we spend another 200 bucks! THe other issue is my son does not want to change bats.... Please help me do what it best for him and his hitting... is the coach just babbling or does he have a point?
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I am just guessing your son plays on aau or usssa travel team. If this is the case, and your son can swing the 2 1/2" bat then I would say swing that type of bat. For 9u I would say 29" might be the right bat if it is 2 1/2" bat. Like Joe said it all depends on the body type of the kid. It is all about bat speed. If kid can swing 20oz bat 50mph, and swing 19 oz bat 48mph. I would go with the 20oz bat. More weight with less drop in batspeed.

Mike