Buy at least four more of the same bat.

No matter what you pay for a wood bat, contact on the handle or trade mark will cause the bat to crack

Better to have a $15 cracked bat than a $115 cracked bat.

Looks to me like you purchased a good quality bat for $15.

If I were you, I would buy as many as I thought I needed until he moves on to a heavier or longer bat.

A more expensive bat will also crack with the same contact. Handles and trade marks are the two weakest points on a bat.

I gave that some thought,just buying up the wal mart stock but if there is something better I would like to try it.


I was really thinking bamboo but not finding anything.


I am finding bats fairly cheap(around 50 bucks)but not sure they are any better than the 15 dollar one.

I was just surprised that a he was able to crack it.

MLB is going to have a meeting this week on the types of wood to be used in bats. It seems as if the Ash bats are being replaced more and more with Maple. Numerous big league players including Pujos use Maple. The problem is then that the studies have shown that Ash bats split while Maple bats bust off. Maple bats are becoming very dangerous to spectators in the first rows of MLB games. We'll have to wait to see how this meeting goes.

BTW, we trained with composite wood. I told several bat companies that they didnt' make a composite that could last a season of my team hitting with it. I was never proven wrong. We constantly wore out the composits.

The bigger the drop weight the more likely the bat is to break. When we use -2 drops in 16U we might break one bat a game. I think my son has broken one bat in three years from 13U to 16U. He broke two or three of those cheap -7 drops each year when he used them for BP at age nine and ten.