Hitting with a CORKED BAT | Wood Baseball Bat Reviews

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When I cork bats for the Astros organization I usually break up the cork and soak the pieces in something sticky so the cork will separate in chunks yet stay with the wood that breaks apart, that way the bat boy can quickly pick up the pieces of the bat before anyone notices the bat was corked. (THANK YOU to everyone that gave me a thumbs up, wow! 😎)

this is the most anxiety inducing unsafe handling of a drill I have ever seen lol

The cork is not used just to lighten the bat. It is used to increase elasticity and transfer through the hollowed out section. The cork must be tight, not baggy

Just a heads up, as a woodworker and engineer, you should use a paddle bit that’s about 1/16” smaller diameter than the corks you plan to use. The cork will compress, fill the void, remove the need for added weight via super glue, and hold the structural integrity of the wood significantly better. Pretty interesting results for a first go with a lot of voids though. It went far better than I would have anticipated.

Sosa getting caught red-handed was classic, but I still like the Indians going Mission Impossible and stealing back Albert Belle's bat from the umpires' room better.

Who randomly started watching them a while ago and now it’s one of your favorite habits 😅 got the merch in December 👍

For anyone not really familiar with bat "drops", the standard is -3 ... meaning the weight of the bat cannot be more than three digits away from the length (example: 34in bat has to be 31 ounces, anything more than that i.e. 30 Oz, 29, 28 etc, is super illegal) -3 is the standard as far down as Little League ball, so the advantage is a very real thing. The highest drop I've ever seen personally was a -9 TPX aluminum. I brought it to a game of mine when I was about 13 or 14 years old and it didn't make it out of that game. The whole team used it each at bat until one kid, and hand to God I am not making this up, swung the bat and made full barrel contact, but the sound wasn't right and the ball literally traveled 5 feet behind him to the back of the cage.... the aluminum ripped on the barrel and there a baseball sized hole ... the ball went thru the first layer of aluminum to the back of the barrel, almost lodging itself into the bat, but came back out on the follow thru and went behind the batter ... as 14 years olds we as a team swung this bat with such violent force that the bat broke

I would like to see the corks stuffed tightly into the holes and then re-test it. It would be interesting to see if such a setup would result in a bit greater hitting distance.

Pretty sure you you want the cork to be tight/solid in the hollowed out barrel, without any play. No point to having it bouncing around in there. Its meant to maintain structural integrity and give added bounce (possibly?). But just having wine corks jingling around in there, while hilarious, is pointless.

Instead of inches, we should just measure bats by wine corks

To increase durability, I think the hole diameter should be slightly smaller than the cork and ram them down to create a tighter fit. This way it’s not so hollow.

HEY SBCC - I played for Rusty Fairly (Ron Fairly's brother - LA Dodgers/California Angels) at SBCC back in the day from '79-80. Fairly was the head baseball coach at SBCC from 1965 to 1981.

You using a drill like that made me nervous, should have used a vice and a drill press.

Thanks for the support bro! Amazing video! Lets COLLAB ASAP!

Part of the benefit of corking is weight difference generating bat speed, but a second (huge) part is the act of compression, as the bat absorbs the force of the pitch and then releases that energy to launch the ball with greater velocity (like a trampoline). To do this well, the hole drilled must be smaller in diameter than corking material, so that the cork fits very tightly into the barrel. This will extend the life of the bat (before it cracks) and increase the launching effect.

You should drill out the other one and fill it with spray foam insulation and see what happens. Super lightweight and it would fill the mass of the whole

You made me so nervous using the drill while just holding the bat with your other hand hahaha glad there were no casualties!

The funniest thing I ever saw after Sosa got caught was someone wearing a Sosa jersey and they spelled out SOSA on the back with wine corks when the Cubs were in town playing the Braves…

There's something very cathartic about just watching a bunch of baseball hits back to back to back.