Does Bat Rolling Add Distance To Your Batted Ball? How Much Distance?
Bat Rolling has been around for about 7 years and is just now starting to hit the mainstream market in the baseball and fastpitch community. If you are thinking about getting your bats rolled, you have probably read some information on the topic before you are reading this. You would have seen that perpendicular rolling followed by parallel is how companies are rolling bats (and it has proven to gain the most distance). You probably know that this is just an accelerated break in process that can also be done by hitting about 500-700 balls. The last sentence touched on one of the benefits of bat rolling; a quick break in process. Composite bats get “hotter” as they hit baseballs or softballs and bat rolling simulates about 500-800 hits on a bat. Along with this accelerated break in is a consistent break in along the entire sweet spot. There will not be a dead spot anywhere along the center of the bat. The biggest reason to get a bat rolled is the distance that is gained. There has been a controlled scientific study that proves that bat rolling increases batted ball speed (which means more distance). These studies came to the conclusion that the bats they had rolled hit up to 40 feet. This was a study of just two bats but bat rolling companies go with the 20 to 40 feet increase in distance as a base for distance gained. There are some YouTube videos out there that have the distance gained as 45 feet.
Some EBay bat rolling companies boast 60 feet gained and I would say this is a possibility on a few types of bats but not an average. It almost seems unbelievable that a bat can make that big of distance with a batted ball. Even on the low end of the scale 20 feet is like the size of two warning tracks. I know there have been plenty of long fly balls I have hit that were caught as outs. Bat rolling would have shot these hits over the fence, even if the results were minimal. I was skeptical as I read about the results of bat rolling until I purchased a machine to test it out on my own bats. I noticed a huge difference in distance as I rolled and then hit a 2005 Synergy Extended. As of that moment, I understood bat rolling worked and would be a main stay in the slow pitch softball community. It then had worked its way into the fastpitch community and the collegiate baseball community.
So now everyone was beginning to understand the benefits of bat rolling. Recently the NCAA saw that bat rolling increased the distance of a batted ball also. Homeruns had increased dramatically from one year to the next and accusations of bat rolling at the collegiate level were flying. The NCAA acted by placing a ban on all composite bats and went back to aluminum alloy. The funny thing is that aluminum bats can also be rolled for an increase in distance, although not as great.
Bat rolling will increase the batted ball’s distance with all types of baseball or softball bats and will save time on breaking in the bat. If you don not mind giving up your bat for a little less than a week then bat rolling is definitely a huge plus for any player on the diamond.
Questions and Answers
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Association can suspend you if a bat is found to be altered but bat rolling is virtually impossible to detect, without a shadow of doubt. Unlike shaving or end loading a bat the effects of rolling are not easily detectable. A bat would need to be cut long ways and scientifically examined to find a pattern of resin break down consistent with rolling; no association has that type of time or money.
Now, wait a minute isn’t perpendicular bat rolling enough? Sufficient is a perfect adjective because the answer is yes, but if one wants the carbon fibers broken up entirely you would have to make about 8-12 more runs through perpendicularly trusting you roll the bat on the correct area. When the bat is taken through perpendicularly, an assured way to break in the rest of the bat is to roll it between a parallel rolling machine.
Composite bats are made of many layers of fiber, resin, and glue. When a bat comes from the factory the resin and glue between the fibers are stiff and less pliable. As a bat is hit by a baseball or softball the resin and glue begin to break, this is what players would call “breaking in”, literally.
Parallel bat rolling is a process that rolls the traditional sweet spot of the bat. As you could guess the bat is placed parallel with the bat rollers. The theory behind this is that the entire sweet spot of the bat would be rolled with out missing any areas within the sweet spot.
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Bat rolling breaks in the resin of a composite as if it were hit about 500 times. The flex of the barrel will increase as the composite is broken down; which equates to more distance. This type of flex is most prevalent in men's slow pitch bats but will happen will all composite bats, including youth baseball bats.
Only rolling perpendicular had been good enough in the past and was the industry standard in the infancy of rolling bats. That is until BigDawgBatRolling enhanced this older idea of rolling. Bat rolling perpendicular followed by parallel generates Optimal Distance Results.
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