Price Comparison

You may think that with the new certification process would force bat manufacturers to raise the price of the bats. Well actually when you compare the two types of bats the prices are almost identical to one another.

Back when BESR bats were being used, you could easily find yourself paying anywhere between $200 all the way up to $500, all depending upon what brand of bat it was that you were buying. For example, you could have bought an Easton Typhoon bat for $200 but the bat would break or die before the end of the summer season. You could have also bought a Louisville Slugger ExoGrid bat for around $500 and notice a tremendous difference in the durability and pop that the bat had. So depending on how much you spent actually made a difference when it came to bat quality.

2007 Easton Typhoon

2007 Louisville Slugger ExoGrid

Now when you go to a store you will find mainly BBCOR bats and the first thing people seem to look at is the price tag. When they see a bat for $400 they turn away from it as if they would never think of spending that kind of money for a bat. The matter is that BBCOR bats range from $60 (very low quality) to $400 (high quality). The thing with BBCOR bats though is that since the certification puts restrictions on the bounciness of the barrel, I can say from personal experience that a $200 Verdero BBCOR bat hits just as well as the $300 DeMarini Voodoo in terms of durability and pop. The look of the bats is the only real difference in my opinion.

Verdero 718 Max

2013 DeMarini Voodoo