What Size Bat Should My Son Use

If you are big enough to swing an aluminum bat, and so you're big plenty to benefit from a wood bat. Wood bats develop proper swing form .

So, how practise you choose the right size bat for your slugger? It's primarily about length and drop weight—which is the length-to-weight ratio—with some butt size consideration.

Choosing the Right Wood Youth Baseball game Bat Size

If your kid has been properly fitted for length of their metal bat, then the length option for a wood bat volition be simple: go with the length of their metal bat.

Many ask if they should driblet back an inch for a youth wood bat, as wood tends to weigh more than metal. The answer is no! It'due south not that wood bats are too heavy; it's that metallic bats are artificially low-cal. With wood, his/her metal bat golf game-like swing is replaced by a nice, level baseball swing. And, your young hitter learns where to brand contact (on the sweet spot: ~2-6" from barrel finish) to maximize ability and get more hits on any bat. We'll impact proper weight again shortly.

Is this your child's first experience playing baseball? Non confident he or she was ever properly sized for a forest bat? If your answer is yes to either question, here is a helpful chart with general recommendations for proper youth bat size. Select your child's weight from the left hand row, and height from the top row. At the intersection of those two points is the suggested youth wood baseball game bat size.

Proper Weight for a Wood Youth Bat

In addition to length, length-to-weight ratio also plays a disquisitional role in your slugger's success. Every bit referenced above, an artificially low-cal bat leads to the aforementioned golf-like swing. A youth wood bat that is too heavy causes hitters to drop their shoulder or turn their wrists. This yields reduced bat speed and less contact with the brawl.

Expect for a length-to-weight ratio of -seven to -8 for an 11-yr-old or younger. If you lot take this number (referred to equally drop weight) and subtract information technology from bat length, you get the weight in ounces of the bat. So, a 30" -8 drib weight bat will weigh 22 ounces (30-viii=22).

For 12-13 yr olds playing Pony, Junior, or Senior League level, we recommend a youth bat length-to-weight ratio of -5. For instance, a 31" bat weighs 26 ounces. This drop weight gives the young hitter a very manageable weight transition between a youth bat and a loftier-school age bat.

Getting a properly weighted youth bat is critical to developing a proper swing. If the weight doesn't fit the age, all the adept that comes from swinging a forest bat is erased.

Youth Wood Bat Barrel Size and Length

Currently, any youth 11 years old or younger is required to swing a 2.25" maximum bore butt. For 12-xiii year olds (and beyond), a 2.v" minimum diameter barrel is typically required. This follows Piddling League rules, which almost leagues follow.

Butt length, which impacts the balanced feel of any wood bat, is another factor to consider when selecting a youth wood bat. The longer the barrel, the more cease-weighted information technology will feel. Even the ridiculously light metallic bats with long barrels wreak havoc on a young hitter's swing class. Being a power hitter with a metal bat is way different than being a power hitter with a wood bat. So, we recommend, especially for youth, to avoid wooden bats that take big or long barrels, unless your child is super-sized for his/her age. The more counterbalanced the wood bat, the more than success we expect the youth baseball player to have.

Coupling player age with proper youth bat barrel size and length-to-weight ratio (drop weight) will go you one pace closer to developing a peachy swing.

Youth Bat Recommendations

Commencement, e'er purchase a properly weighted youth woods bat in the length that matches your kid's metal bat. And, if y'all don't know if he/she was sized properly, use this baseball game bat size chart.

Second, if you are considering a Phoenix bat, nosotros recommend that a child upwards to age eleven goes with one of the following:

K240 if new to wood (especially ix-11 yr olds), as information technology has more inside pitch protection
K455 if wood bat experience or 8 or younger
K271 for the biggest kid, especially if he/she is 10-11 years old

We promise, they can handle it!

At 12-13 years sometime, nosotros recommend a transition to the DR100 or DR5S wood youth bat. The barrel size changes from 2-1/4" to 2-ane/ii", but the length-to-weight differential (aka drop weight) but goes from a -8 to a -5. This maintains swing class. By 14 years old, we definitely look to see a youth swinging one of our full size, -3 drop weight or heavier baseball bats.

Each Phoenix bat comes with hit and care tips, as nosotros desire your kid to have a great forest bat feel. For more data, delight check out The Ultimate Guide to Ownership a Youth Baseball Bat and our comprehensive Bat Resources page.

Cheque out our related posts!