Major League Baseball

USA Baseball to assume management of BBCOR as part of expanded USABAT program

USA Baseball today announced it will assume management of the Batted Ball Coefficient of Restitution (BBCOR) performance standard from the NCAA, introducing a new category under its existing USABat ...
Major League Baseball

USA Baseball jointly announces new standards for HS bat weights

USA Baseball and the National Federation of High School State Associations (NFHS) today announced that the NFHS Rules ...
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High school baseball to allow lighter bats beginning with 2028 season

High school baseball players will be allowed to use lighter USA-certified bats beginning in 2028 after more than a decade of ...
Baseball America

No, Lighter High School Baseball Bats Won’t Increase Exit Velocities

Will newly certified -4, -5 and -6 USA Bats allowed bigger high school baseball players to juice their EVs? J.J. Cooper explains.
Baseball America

Louisville Slugger Employs Digital Simulations to Create New One-Piece Atlas BBCOR Bat

Louisville Slugger turned to scientific modeling for the creation of the upcoming brand-new one-piece alloy performance bat the Atlas. And Slugger needed plenty of those simulations to get to the ...
CompositesWorld

Designing an infused, two-piece composite baseball bat

Almost 20 years of development work in RTM of dry fabrics went into the design of the Icon BBCOR, Rawlings’ first two-piece bat made with infused dry braided fabrics. Source (All Images) | Rawlings ...