mizuno pro maple?

[Coach 10025]

My son's Mizuno MZP 55 pro maple broke on the first swing.

He knows how to hold and use a wood bat (he's on a 15U national tournament team, which is primarily wood-bat, and school play is also wood-bat). The hit was a solid opposite-field line-drive double.

It cracked in an odd way. It looks like an ash-bat flake, but across the grain.

He taped up the bat and used it to hit another solid double in his next at bat. He's using it for batting practice now. (Its hard to give up on a bat with a 3.000 OPS.) He loves the turning. On the other hand, 125 bucks is a bit rich for a bat that breaks on the first swing.

He's switching to ash, which better suits his hitting style. So we won't be buying another. If he were staying with maple, however, we probably would get another.

Your mileage, as they say, may vary.