Metal Vs Wooden Bat Research Paper

The Controversy Whether College Baseball Players
Should Use Metal or Wooden Bats?
` In college baseball today the players are becoming so strong because of the weight lifting plans, constant conditioning, and the use of drugs to enhance their performance. The baseballs are being wound tighter and the quality of pitching has declined over the years. It is becoming a major concern for college players because they hit the ball so hard with metal bats. It is just a matter of time until someone gets hit and either seriously injures or even kills them if it hits them in the wrong place. It is getting too dangerous for players today to be using metal bats. The most dangerous position for players is pitcher because they are the closest to the batter at sixty feet six inches away from home plate. Balls hit up the middle of the field off metal bats give pitchers an average reaction time of 0.056 seconds less than that of balls hit with wood bats. This could be a difference of life and death (Shively 1). This is very little time to get out of the way of a ball. In my recent experience, we were playing Tennessee Westland and our lead-off man Chris Rankhorn hit a line drive back up the middle hitting the pitcher in
In my experience of using a wooden bat balls I hit were not hit near as hard, not hit as far, and if you did not hit the ball square the player would know it. If you do not hit the ball on the barrel of the bat with a wooden bat it stings your hands and may break the bat training the player to hit the ball on the barrel of the bat. If I hit a ball out of the ball park by ten or twenty feet with a metal bat the ball probably would not go out with a wooden bat. One of the toughest transitions for players in college baseball to the professional level is the switch between metal to wood; therefore it would better prepare them for professional level if the so choose to play at that