Marucci Baseball Bats

Reviews of the 2011 Bat

Here's a summary of the 2011 Marucci baseball bats. Well, actually there's just one...the CAT 5. Having been in the wood bat market since the early 2000s, Marucci entered the aluminum bat market with this model last year.

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CAT 5

The CAT 5 is just a straight up, 1-piece aluminum model. The pitch from Marucci is that a bat with less vibration on impact, will boost confidence in the hitter, producing a more powerful swing. It uses something called Abin Harmonic Dampening, to eliminate harmonic vibration caused by off-center hits.

In fact, on their website they show the results of an experiment done by Dr. Daniel A. Russel at Kettering University, comparing the vibration levels on the Marucci against 3 competitor models. They ran the CAT 5 against a Stealth, a CF4, and an Exogrid, and it outperformed all of them by a long shot in vibration reduction levels.

It is a balanced bat, not end-loaded, and available in an adult -3, senior -5 and -8, and a youth -10. Right now, Baseball Express is selling the adult for $360, the two senior models for $300, and the youth model for $240.

CAT 5 Adult -3
Senior -5
Senior -8
Youth -10
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Summary

Check out Marucci's official website for more information.

Their claim is that players report the Marucci baseball bats as having a great feel to them. Does it have what it takes to compete with the other major competitors? We'll have to wait and see. Albert Pujols endorses their products, so they've obviously got some good things going for them ;)

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