Coaching Youth Baseball-Free Drills and Youth baseball Tips for Parents and Coaches

Wood and aluminum bats and the sweet spot. Almost every bat on the market seems to say it has a larger sweet spot now. What about flexible handles? Here is some links to educational studies by universities(not bat manufacturers) for some interesting reading.
Youth baseball coaches are asked often about youth baseball bats. It helps to have all the knowledge you can.

"Bigger Sweet Spot!" Usually this claim means the bat is more forgiving on less than perfect hits. Which means if the ball is hit in a not so good spot it will have less vibration thus less pain to the youth baseball player. Many of the new technologies do minimize the vibrations of the youth baseball bat. This is not really a bad thing, We want our kids to hit the ball right? A few bad hits, the sting comes and our youth baseball players might stop swinging the bat so hard.

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But as coaches and youth baseball parents, it is nice to have the facts. There is an educational study by Kettering University on this. You can read more about it here
http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/bats-new/bend-sweet.html

There is also some really interesting stuff on flexible handled bats
http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/bats-new/handle-flex.html

So while I like the fact of reduced sting in youth baseball bats, I feel like the larger sweet spot stuff is just a marketing ploy to sell $300 youth baseball bats.