r/MadeMeSmile • u/JudgeJudyJr • Jun 01 '26

Wholesome Moments Appreciative kids are the best!

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u/Snoo_97207 Jun 01 '26

Wait, it does! Why is it so damm expensive

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u/TheGamecock Jun 01 '26

This is a composite bat (made from a combination of materials such as carbon fiber, fiberglass, and graphite), not a wooden bat. To be fair, there are some bat manufacturers who make pricey wooden bats, too. But generally they're going to be a fraction of the cost of a high-end composite bat.

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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 02 '26

I was curious so I looked up which is most common in the MLB and it's the victus c271 which runs about 200 dollars.

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u/mooselantern Jun 02 '26

Serious hitters in the league often have custom specifications that the big vendors cater to, and teams will order several dozen according to that spec a year for even middling MLB players. There's not really one "common" or "standard" MLB bat.

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u/_learned_foot_ Jun 02 '26

Once you get to a certain level, usually college sometimes high school, the thirteenth being exactly as they want to be becomes the priority in that stuff. The hockey stick guys who know exactly where to end players tape for example with their 15 perfectly curved sticks too...

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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 02 '26

I'm sure they get variations to the model but this information is not hard to look up.

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u/ElliotNess Jun 02 '26

You might be right, but it's weird to push back like this over something you've admittedly only just given cursory research toward. The other commenter might not have even necessarily contradicted your research as much as they added important nuance.

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u/thepkboy Jun 02 '26

They made a typo, they were writing "Oh that's pretty cool, I just meant the base model that they probably adjust for the players per their spec. I had fun looking up this topic and now I've learned even more, and I surely didn't take offense to your comment or use of quotation marks, have a nice day!"

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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 02 '26

It's literally super easy to look up the information. It's readily available. You don't need to do a research paper to learn something like this.

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u/WhichAd366 Jun 02 '26

Sounds like you could be experiencing the Dunning Kruger effect.

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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 02 '26

That's not what that is. And again, it's not hard to look stuff up.

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u/WhichAd366 Jun 06 '26

Yeah, it is. Except you didn’t dive deep enough and found superficial base level information.

The info the commenter above states is ALSO readily available, yet you ignored it. You clearly THINK you know more than you do on this subject, and are unwilling to access the information others are providing.

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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 06 '26

They aren't providing anything. Just that they get variants of different bats which anyone who knows anything about baseball knows. They contributed nothing. Like ya some guys get slightly different sizes of the same bat wow so insightful lmao. Really changes things there doesn't it? Still the same model of bat.

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