What type of performance to expect from a rolled bat
Bat Rolling has been around for about 9 years and is just now starting to hit the mainstream market in the baseball and fast pitch community. If you are thinking about getting your bats rolled, you have probably read some information on the topic before you are reading this. You would have seen that perpendicular rolling followed by parallel is how companies are rolling bats (and it has proven to gain the most distance). You probably know that this is just an accelerated break in process that can also be done by hitting about 500-800 balls. The last sentence touched on one of the benefits of bat rolling; a quick break in process. Composite bats get “hotter” as they hit baseballs or softballs and bat rolling simulates about 500-800 hits on a bat. Along with this accelerated break in is a consistent break in along the entire sweet spot. There will not be a dead spot anywhere along the center of the bat. The biggest reason to get a bat rolled is the distance that is gained. There has been a controlled scientific study that proves that bat rolling increases batted ball speed (which means more distance). These studies came to the conclusion that the bats they had rolled hit up to 40 feet. This was a study of just two bats but bat rolling companies go with the 20 to 40 feet increase in distance as a base for distance gained. There are some YouTube videos out there that have the distance gained as 45 feet.
Some EBay bat rolling companies boast 60 feet gained and I would say this is a possibility on a few types of bats but not an average. It almost seems unbelievable that a bat can make that big of distance with a batted ball. Even on the low end of the scale 20 feet is like the size of two warning tracks. I know there have been plenty of long fly balls I have hit that were caught as outs. Bat rolling would have shot these hits over the fence, even if the results were minimal. I was skeptical as I read about the results of bat rolling until I purchased a machine to test it out on my own bats. I noticed a huge difference in distance as I rolled and then hit my own personal bats. As of that moment, I understood bat rolling worked and would be a main stay in the slow pitch softball community. It then had worked its way into the fastpitch community and the collegiate baseball community, also as far as little league and believe it or not t-ball. Most parents that call us are not looking for their child to crush the ball 300' but simply give their child not only a slight advantage but also boost their confidence.
Lets say you cant hit the long ball and somehow always end up hitting line drives at the short stop. The ball wasn't hit hard enough so the player on the other team has no problem fielding the ball and throwing you out at first base. NOW lets place that bat in a rolling machine and break down those fibers and resin and "break that bat in". Now knowing you have a slight advantage watching us roll your bat you're confident, and ready, the ball is pitched and "CRACK" you make beautiful contact with the ball since rolling the bat just increased the "sweet spot" by 1 inch in either direction. Gaining 5-7mph of batted ball speed the ball shoots past the short stop and into the outfield.
Now back to what we were talking about.......So now that everyone is beginning to understand the benefits of bat rolling. Recently the NCAA saw that bat rolling increased the distance of a batted ball. Homeruns had increased dramatically from one year to the next and accusations of bat rolling at the collegiate level were flying. The NCAA acted by placing a ban on all composite bats and went back to aluminum alloy. The funny thing is that aluminum bats can also be rolled for an increase in distance, although not as great.
Bat rolling will increase the batted ball’s distance with all types of baseball or softball bats and will save time on breaking in the bat. And since we travel to you, there is no wait time, no hours spent at the cages or fields. Just a simple phone call and your work is done.
Some EBay bat rolling companies boast 60 feet gained and I would say this is a possibility on a few types of bats but not an average. It almost seems unbelievable that a bat can make that big of distance with a batted ball. Even on the low end of the scale 20 feet is like the size of two warning tracks. I know there have been plenty of long fly balls I have hit that were caught as outs. Bat rolling would have shot these hits over the fence, even if the results were minimal. I was skeptical as I read about the results of bat rolling until I purchased a machine to test it out on my own bats. I noticed a huge difference in distance as I rolled and then hit my own personal bats. As of that moment, I understood bat rolling worked and would be a main stay in the slow pitch softball community. It then had worked its way into the fastpitch community and the collegiate baseball community, also as far as little league and believe it or not t-ball. Most parents that call us are not looking for their child to crush the ball 300' but simply give their child not only a slight advantage but also boost their confidence.
Lets say you cant hit the long ball and somehow always end up hitting line drives at the short stop. The ball wasn't hit hard enough so the player on the other team has no problem fielding the ball and throwing you out at first base. NOW lets place that bat in a rolling machine and break down those fibers and resin and "break that bat in". Now knowing you have a slight advantage watching us roll your bat you're confident, and ready, the ball is pitched and "CRACK" you make beautiful contact with the ball since rolling the bat just increased the "sweet spot" by 1 inch in either direction. Gaining 5-7mph of batted ball speed the ball shoots past the short stop and into the outfield.
Now back to what we were talking about.......So now that everyone is beginning to understand the benefits of bat rolling. Recently the NCAA saw that bat rolling increased the distance of a batted ball. Homeruns had increased dramatically from one year to the next and accusations of bat rolling at the collegiate level were flying. The NCAA acted by placing a ban on all composite bats and went back to aluminum alloy. The funny thing is that aluminum bats can also be rolled for an increase in distance, although not as great.
Bat rolling will increase the batted ball’s distance with all types of baseball or softball bats and will save time on breaking in the bat. And since we travel to you, there is no wait time, no hours spent at the cages or fields. Just a simple phone call and your work is done.