USSSA Marucci Cat X2 vs Cat X [Blind Bat Testing]
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- We took some hacks with the USSSA CAT X2 and CAT X and got some exit speed comparisons.
In the end, they are pretty clean bats. The get knob feels great and the gel end cap doesn't seem to hurt anything, so that's good. The bat is the same price as last year's model so that's great. We'd recommend the CAT X2.
See our full CAT X2 review here: www.batdigest.com/baseball-ba... - Sport
Great review boys. Thinkin about picking my son up an x2 so this helped a lot
Glad we could help!
Bat Digest Family: It doesn't surprise me that the original CAT design has less vibration than the X2. The tuned mass has to be located at the end where the damping is to occur, in other words your hands. The buzz from an end capper excites the bending vibration in the bat because you are hitting at an anti-node. The sweet spot is the node (part of the wave that doesn't oscillate) so you transfer most of the energy to the ball and don't use it on the handle buzz. It's similar to the dampers they put in high-rise buildings. Look up Taipei 101. The disadvantage of the knob location is that it will reduce the swing weight while adding to the scale weight. I'd be curious to see what the swing weights are between the two versions. It seems like Marucci is killing off the best feature of their bats for younger hitters and spinning it with some end cap damping marketing nonsense. Maybe they are trying to hold price in an inflationary economy. It's a shame if they do this change to the USSSA bats. The BBCOR version would probably benefit since HS hitters aren't bothered by buzzing.
Hmmm. Great stuff Michael, thanks for the note by email to. It's in our respond box. Need to get to that.
These bats look great and the boys look even better ;)
Great review my Grandson(11yrs) has been using a Cat7 -10 (4HR). We are looking to purchase a new bat and he loves the Cat-Bats so what’s your thoughts about an -8 for 11 year old kid would it be to heavy ?
Thank you. And not at all. Drop 8 for 11u is a pretty reasonable me size if he’s played for a bit.
Cat9 one piece is still the goat
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