Way to go Combat! Good job! (not really)

[cps]

Problem is he's reaching an age where dad can't hang with the pitch speeds he'll see, unless I put the screen say.....about two ft in front of home plate. LOL

I know what you mean about that….My son recently joined a baseball academy that has nice pitching machines set up at 60 feet for more realistic BP.

[wesparker]

"How? Are you saying the walls would be made to flex at a lower impact? Although I'm not familiar with coach pitch bats don't they need to meet the same standards as any other youth bat (bpf 1.15)?"

2999hits,
My bad, I didn't realize Union-Dad was in a Williamsport-sanctioned LL program requiring 1.15 BPF small-barrel bats, which don't have a "coach pitch" category, as far as I know.

The bats advertised as "coach pitch" are big barrel bats that don't have any kind of rating (BPF or whatnot). No limits on performance. When they're made out of composite, they ARE designed specifically to flex like crazy when used in the relatively slow pitch and swing speeds of coach-pitch baseball. That's a main advantage of composites--tuning different models of bats for a specific situation.

[tom2p]

Problem is he's reaching an age where dad can't hang with the pitch speeds he'll see, unless I put the screen say.....about two ft in front of home plate. LOL

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Ditto !
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I had trouble pitching fast enough for kids in LL - 11 and 12 yr olds. I was forced to move the cage up ... and up ! ..

[dden]

Actually, the Combat bats you are referring to were not even made for coach pitch. They were made for a youger kids' travel ball league in Georgia (which is why they are big barrel bats). They (27/17, 26/16, 25/15) are the exact same bat as the regular senior league ("big barrel") bats, just in a smaller size...same composite, same construction, same thickness. They don't flex any more than the larger -10 B1s, in fact, they flex less because the barrel is shorter on the smaller bats. The bats in question are not even legal for use in Little League because they are not 2 1/4" diameter bats.