Why doesn't MLB allow ONLY aluminum bats to be used? The wooden bats are VERY dangerious when they splinter...

Answer 1

A ball coming off an aluminum bat is very dangerous. Just imagine a ball hit directly at a pitcher.

Answer 2

Wooden bats CAN be dangerous when they splinter, but aluminium bats allow a pitch to be hit at much, much higher speed, high enough that if an infielder were to be hit by that ball, it could kill. Every wooden bat has what's referred to as a "sweet spot", a small area of the bat which, when used to hit the ball, can result in the ball being solidly hit. Aluminium bats are almost entirely "sweet spot", so that hitting is much easier, and that combination is truly dangerous.

When a bat shatters, most of it stays on the field, generally remaining in the infield. A piece of it may hit the player on deck, but every other player on the field, every coach on the field, and every umpire is watching and they can manage to get out of the way with little problem. At times, yes, a piece of that splintered bat can fly into the stands, as can any whole bat and both fly balls and home runs. That's why it's necessary to keep your eyes on the action at all times when you're in the stands. BTW, that reminder is on the back of every ticket sold, and that indemnifies the teams, the stadia and MLB from from law suits when a ball, a bat or a piece of a bat strikes someone in the stands.

As for the pieces of the bat that land on the field, they're only dangerous if Roger Clemens picks them up and hurls them at the batter. Just ask Mike Piazza.

Aluminium bats do shatter, too. Jimmy Key was hit in the toe buy a piece of a shattered aluminum bat when he was pitching for Clemson. It was late in the college season, the time when cross-checkers are looking at players who might be drafted. That injury kept him out of a couple of starts, and cost him a couple of rounds in the draft. He should, by all other accounts, have been a first-round pick, but without havng been seen by the national cross-checkers, that didn't happen.

Answer 3

A ball coming off an alluminum bat would be much more dangerous. Balls jump off aluminum bats easier than wooden ones. Many players would suffer injuries. And Baseball is a game of tradition, wooden bats have been used since the 1840's.

Answer 4

aluminum bats are far far far more dangerous than wood bats. everyone knows this.
espn every year does a story about all of the injuries that result from aluminum bat use in the highschool and college ranks. the ball comes off aluminum bats so fast, pitchers have no time to defend themselves from a line drive back at them.
getting hit in the leg or face with part of a splintered bat hurts far less than taking a line drive off an aluminum bat.
plus aluminum bats create more power and home runs would increase greatly.
dude, aluminum bats are no safe. do some research.

Answer 5

The aluminum bats can also be VERY dangerous as you can hit the ball a lot harder and the pitchers would be very defenseless! Besides that only one player has been killed with a pitched ball in the history of the game! I think that is a pretty good track record! Keep the wooden bats!

Answer 6

Look, MLB has been using wooden bats for decades among decades, and over that time there have extremely few injuries, if any at all in that time period with wooden bats.

If this was considered by the players union and the umpires union, you can bet Bud Selig would be notified QUITE frequently with concerns over the shards of a wooden bat injuring players, coaches and umpires on the feild.

For as long as MLB has been using wooden bats, nothing serious enough has happened to cause a media uproar in baseball ever.

Answer 7

If they used aluminum bats a line drive would be three times as fast as they do with wooden bats. I think a player would rather be hit by a piece of wood just sailing through the air rather than a hard baseball at 200 mph.

Answer 8

wood gives a little and the ball is hard it creates the effect of launching the ball a little better opposite from softball where ball is soft and bat is herd (aluminum) if you don't think so go out and hit a baseball with an aluminum bat it will tingle in your hand because nothing gives so all the shockwave goes through your body the next softest part in the chain

simple physics.

Answer 9

And aluminum bats aren't? Baseballs would be flying like missles. The MLB will go to graphite bats before the do aluminum.

Answer 10

yes wood bats do splinter,but aluminum bats are just to dangerous with the speed that the ball will come off the bat