Why Do Mlb Players Use Wooden Bats

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Written by E Kennedy on February 6, 2013

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It’s one of those great afternoons that you got tickets to the ball game. After you’ve finished your tailgating party and closed up your baseball umbrella, you may be sitting down in your stadium seats ready to watch the game. You may even sit back while you’re watching that batter wind up and wonder to yourself wait a minute, what’s with the wooden bat?

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Now, if you’ve played baseball when you were young you might remember using a metal bat. I remember as a kid loving that PING noise my metal bat made as I was grand-slamming it into a fast ball my little league pitcher was throwing my way. Looking back, even if you tipped the ball with a metal bat it would go rocketing over the fence!

So while you’re watching that major league game I bet you’ve thought more than a few times about why professional players don’t use what we’d use back in the day. Heck, even college baseball players still use metal bats! What’s it about the major leagues that makes it different?

Major League Players Are Just That Good!

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This answer might seem a little obvious, but think about it! Just like I pointed out from my early years, metal bats have a way of making the ball fly. If major league baseball players used them we’d just be watching a game full of home runs. Actually, I might like it! Well, It might seem kind of cool when you first think about it, but don’t we want our pros to really show some skills to muscle a home run?

That’s why wooden bats have always been a staple for pro baseball players. We’ll let little leaguers keep their metal bats, because moms and dads on the sidelines sitting under baseball umbrellas won’t have to fear for their lives!

When it comes to major league players however, wooden bats makes sense. Wooden bats take more skill to use because they’re slower to swing, and heavier. Also, wooden bats have fewer sweet spots, which means that you have to really work on your swing to be able to make contact with the ball in just the right way to really let that ball fly. When you use a wooden bat its just that much harder to power a home run, so wooden bats ultimately make players work for that victory lap around the field.

Batting Averages Wouldn’t Be So Average Anymore!

Also, can you picture our batting statistics? With aluminum bats there would be such a spike in batting averages that baseball simply wouldn’t be the same sport! Right now we can track how well our pros are doing compared to the Babe Ruth’s and Micky Mantle’s that were slugging homers back in the day, because wooden bats have been used since baseball was invented. But If we suddenly switched to aluminum bats our pros could no longer be in the same running as the big names from the past. I think we want to keep an eye on how our pros are stacking up against the all star legends, or else we’ll never know what is really impressive playing anymore!

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