Here is a quote from an official with Little League regarding composite baseball bats that misconstrues the reality of the safety of composite bats.
“The moratorium is not the result of Little League changing its bat standards, nor was it influenced by any relationships with bat manufacturers,” said Patrick W. Wilson, Little League’s vice president of operations.
“The decision to place the moratorium on composite bats in Little League’s baseball divisions is based solely on the fact that scientific research showed that composite-barreled bats may exceed the performance standard that is printed on the bats, after the bats had been broken in.
In fact, Little League DID change it’s bat standards, here is how: The new test Little League uses on a composite bat simulates such an extreme amount of simulated use that the test in no way represents real world use, or even extreme real world use.
The “scientific research” is suspect. Anything altered to a point so far out of the specifications for normal use is going to fail.
We agree that safety in baseball should be Little Leagues number one priority, however a test this extreme is beneficial to nobody and does not use common sense.
Several high end composite baseball bats from Easton and Demarini have passed the waiver test so far.