Posted by: Chris O'Leary (chris@chrisoleary.com) on Thu Jan 25 14:26:01 2007

"Dennis. No offense as who would not want their kid or those who are being taught to have privy to the best mechanics. But at the lower level is it not more important to have the kids making contact and feeling early success/good about themselves?"

That assumes that they will be able to have the same level of success with a big barrel bat as with a standard barrel bat.

I'm not convinced that that will always be the case.

If you shift the Center Of Gravity of the bat you will alter the Swing Weight of the bat which may hurt the player's batspeed.

The analogy between a big barrel bat and an oversized head racket doesn't necessarily apply.