Maple Bat Regulations and Major League Baseball

According to Major League baseball, baseball bats in batting in 2232 erupted in late July of the regular season. 756 of these bats have been broken into several pieces. A research team in MLB has been taken after several high-profile accident seriously injured spectators, a training base, and a plate of the referee. In addition, a number of close calls were reported, one with a chairman and a team of Bobby Cox, manager of the Atlanta Braves. Researchers have discovered that bats maple three times more likely to break into several pieces to the more traditional ash bats. 

The researchers were presented at the MLB in December. Although there are probably many reasons for the dramatic break with the testimony of maple fans, researchers are now focusing on the structure of grain maple for bats. In particular, maple beans should be as straight as possible. Unlike the ash, maple directly grains are more difficult to find. Whatever type of wood, the researchers feel bats are much more likely to fail if the grain of the slope is greater than one inch over a length of 20 inches of the bat (a little less 3 degrees). In addition, the face of the club hitting the ball must be reconfigured by moving the fourth mark turning maple. 

To this end, the researchers conducted a series of recommendations for most of the MLB and the recommendations have been translated into regulations. A summary of these standards is as follows: 

Bats must adhere to a slope of grain requirement of just under 3 degrees on the handle and taper regions. 
Bat must be a point of putting ink on the side of the grain to handle bats birch and maple to measure the slope angle 
Hit the surface of the maple and birch to be the face of grains, not grain edge, ie a quarter turn (90 degrees), the marking on bats 
Handfuls of birch and maple bats should be finished or natural light (to see the grain and dots of ink) 
Bats need a surveillance system for maple and birch bats leaving its stores 
Bat must attend a seminar sponsored by MLB in engineering and the classification of wood 
Bat makers will be visited and checked for manufacturing processes and monitoring systems 
The audits will also be random (which does not seem familiar?) At stages 
A course on the third party certification program should be established to deal with new innovations that come in the future
In addition, Major League Baseball has doubled its fee for the certification of bats $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 per company. They also doubled the requirement for liability insurance of $ 5 million to 10 million. 

Ultimately, it is hoped that these measures will reduce the number of episodes of broken bat dangerous for everyone enjoy America pass. However, these are only first steps. Only time will tell.