When should I move up a bat size?

Age. By about age 11 or 12, a child may be moving out of their ordinary youth bat and may be ready to wield an adult, -3 model, the likes of which will carry them to through until high school or college. The barrel will of course be a little bigger, 2-1/2 inches, up from 2-1/4 inches in the youth models.

What weight bat should I swing?

In general: Children under 60 pounds should swing a bat between 26 and 29 inches long. Children weighing more than 70 pounds should swing a bat ranging from 28 to 32 inches long.

How do you know a bat is the right size?

Position the bottom of the bat in the center of your chest, facing outward. If your arm can reach out and grab the barrel of the bat, then it is the correct length. Stand the bat up against the side of your leg. If the end of the bat reaches the center of your palm when you reach down, it’s the appropriate length.

What weight bat should a 12 year old use?

For 12-13 year olds playing Pony, Junior, or Senior League level, we recommend a youth bat length-to-weight ratio of -5. For example, a 31” bat weighs 26 ounces. This drop weight gives the young hitter a very manageable weight transition between a youth bat and a high-school age bat.

How do I know if my bat is too small?

With that in mind, the most reliable and easiest place to start in determining bat length, according to Trudeau, is to place the knob of the bat in the center of your chest and extend it along the length of your outstretched arm, as shown below. “The bat should come somewhere out to the middle of the fingers,” he said.

What drop size bat do I need?

Weight drops vary in Senior League baseball, but players 10 years old and under often use -10 weight drop bat. Players 11-12 years old will often use a -8 weight drop, and 13 year old players often use a -5 weight drop. These are recommendations.

What size bat does altuve swing?

33-inch
Altuve’s bat is like his physique: short and stocky. He uses a 33-inch Victus-made bat, about an inch shorter than the typical length, with a thinner handle and thicker barrel than many other bats.

What size bat did Barry Bonds use?

34 inches
Bonds’ bat, at 34 inches, and weighing around 32 ounces was based loosely on the C331 Louisville Slugger model that was originally turned for Carl Crawford.

How do I know if my bat is too heavy?

The first, simple test is to have your kid hold the bat straight out in front of them, parallel to the ground, with their dominant hand. If they can’t keep the bat steady in this position for 20 seconds, then the bat’s probably too heavy. Another test to try is evaluating your hitter’s soft toss performance.

Can a bat be too light?

A bat that is too light will cause batters to swing too fast, which also affects rhythm and keeps the batter from doing their job. A light bat also sometimes causes the shoulders to get ahead of the hips.

How to pick the right size of a baseball bat?

A couple of criteria are mostly all you need to pick baseball bat sizes. 1. The age of the youth baseball players. 2. The player’s size and body weight. Use the Most Popular Baseball Bat Length by Age Chart below to start your baseball bat size search.

How hard is it to find information on youth baseball bats?

Finding factual information and decent reviews for youth baseball bats is much harder. For many bats I can’t even determine basic specifications beyond size and weight, and weight is fuzzy due to how the bat’s weight is distributed. Worse, the weight printed on bats is usually inaccurate, sometimes understated by as much as 3 ounces!

What is the best drop for a baseball bat?

The top section is the height of the player vs. the weight. The second is the age vs. weight. For example, a 91 to 100 pound player that is the 4’6″ should swing between a 30-inch drop 12 and drop 11. Or, a 151 pound player at 5’10” should swing a 33-inch BBCOR bat.

How much does a 30-inch bat weigh?

Most bat size charts fail to capture weight information. Yet youth barrel bats in a 30-inch, for example, range from 17 ounces up to 25 ounces. The 4’6″ player above might narrow in on a 29 to 31-inch bat easy enough.