Does Bat Rolling Add Distance To Your Batted Ball? How Much Distance?
Bat Rolling has been around for about 7 years and is just now starting to hit the mainstream market in the baseball and fastpitch community. If you are thinking about getting your bats rolled, you have probably read some information on the topic before you are reading this. You would have seen that perpendicular rolling followed by parallel is how companies are rolling bats (and it has proven to gain the most distance). You probably know that this is just an accelerated break in process that can also be done by hitting about 500-700 balls. The last sentence touched on one of the benefits of bat rolling; a quick break in process. Composite bats get “hotter” as they hit baseballs or softballs and bat rolling simulates about 500-800 hits on a bat. Along with this accelerated break in is a consistent break in along the entire sweet spot. There will not be a dead spot anywhere along the center of the bat. The biggest reason to get a bat rolled is the distance that is gained. There has been a controlled scientific study that proves that bat rolling increases batted ball speed (which means more distance). These studies came to the conclusion that the bats they had rolled hit up to 40 feet. This was a study of just two bats but bat rolling companies go with the 20 to 40 feet increase in distance as a base for distance gained. There are some YouTube videos out there that have the distance gained as 45 feet.
Some EBay bat rolling companies boast 60 feet gained and I would say this is a possibility on a few types of bats but not an average. It almost seems unbelievable that a bat can make that big of distance with a batted ball. Even on the low end of the scale 20 feet is like the size of two warning tracks. I know there have been plenty of long fly balls I have hit that were caught as outs. Bat rolling would have shot these hits over the fence, even if the results were minimal. I was skeptical as I read about the results of bat rolling until I purchased a machine to test it out on my own bats. I noticed a huge difference in distance as I rolled and then hit a 2005 Synergy Extended. As of that moment, I understood bat rolling worked and would be a main stay in the slow pitch softball community. It then had worked its way into the fastpitch community and the collegiate baseball community.
So now everyone was beginning to understand the benefits of bat rolling. Recently the NCAA saw that bat rolling increased the distance of a batted ball also. Homeruns had increased dramatically from one year to the next and accusations of bat rolling at the collegiate level were flying. The NCAA acted by placing a ban on all composite bats and went back to aluminum alloy. The funny thing is that aluminum bats can also be rolled for an increase in distance, although not as great.
Bat rolling will increase the batted ball’s distance with all types of baseball or softball bats and will save time on breaking in the bat. If you don not mind giving up your bat for a little less than a week then bat rolling is definitely a huge plus for any player on the diamond.
Related Products:
Easton Sports Equipment Tote BagThe Easton® Tote holds up to two bats and features a metal hanging fence clip and an interior valuables pocket. Made of 600D polyester/embossed PVC, the bag measures 36-in x 7-in x 9-in.
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