In the MLB there are 250lb+ men who hit the ball with exit velocities over 100mph and yet the bat doesn’t shatter into pieces. I know sometimes the bats do crack, but most of the time they are fine. How?
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According to this source, a pro baseball player goes through 120 bats per season on average.
There’s only 162 games in a season, so the average bat doesn’t last more than two games. That might be due more to optimal performance than durability, but in either case we can conclude that a bat becomes structurally imperfect very quickly in a pro setting.
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Hitting the ball with the grain of the wood the correct way. Like how a stack of papers won’t bend along the edge, but will bend easily across the sheet.
Also they DO break… more than you might think. In the 2008 season MLB had about 2000 baseball bat breaks.
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Most of the energy in the situation is transferred to the ball, sending it flying. Some is absorbed by the bat, but not as much as you’d think. This is all as long as the ball is hit correctly. If you don’t “swing through” and only swing halfway or stop once you make contact with the ball a lot more energy is absorbed in the bat.
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