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The batted-ball performances of youth wood and nonwood bats are examined through experimental methods. The goals of the study are to build a database of performance data on youth bats using a hitting machine in a controlled laboratory environment and to examine how the lab data compare using three performance metrics including the current BPF certification metric. The performance metric that best correlates the lab data with field performance is found to be the BBS metric.
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Jones, J.W., Sherwood, J.A., Drane, P.J. (2008). Experimental Investigation of Youth Baseball Bat Performance (P273). In: The Engineering of Sport 7. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-287-09413-2_79
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