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Hey everybody this is Adam with eBaseballBatReviews.com and welcome
to our very first video baseball bat review for the site. Now today I have the
2012 V-Grip v-Force bat from Mattingly Sports. Now this is a BBCOR
certified bat
so it is legal for collegiate play
and beginning january 1st, 2012 it will be required that all high
school players have a BBCOR certified bat. What that means is that it is going to
have to carry this BBCOR
certified .50 logo so when you're searching for a new
bat for next season, make sure that it carries the BBCOR logo.
Now the biggest thing with this bat is the V-Grip technology
and that's something that Yankee legend and current Dodger manager Don Mattingly
came up with when he was actually teaching his kids how to hit and what
you'll see a lot of with
youth baseball players is that they'll have the elbows up and
maybe these knuckles lined up these top knuckles
that's not actually correct and what Mattingly has done
he has actually made the handle into kind of a V shape so it comes to a
point and what that does is it gets the
the bat handle up into the knocker knuckles
which is very important. It allows you to get your elbows in and to have a
quicker path to the baseball
so it actually will increase bat speed. Mattingly has done some
studies and shown that it can increase bat speed up to
seven percent so a fairly good amount. You know with all the rules changes
and with the barrels of the bats having to conform to this BBCOR certification
bat speed is going to be huge and if you can pick up a little
bat speed, you know, with a different grip that's gonna be big,
that's gonna be very big.
Another thing that this bat features is direct power transfer and
what that is is it's actually a stiffer handle bat.
So you don't get a lot of flex in the bat and allows a lot of the power to
be transferred to the barrel.
That's a key thing in in picking up, again, some more power
it's also made with the MB7500 alloy which is something
that only the Mattingly bats have.
Basically,
it's a very value
driven alloy. It's very durable and it is very, you know, performance oriented
This bat retails for $149.99. It's a great bat. For more
information check out eBaseballBatReviews.com/Mattingly