<\/a>Broken wood bats<\/a> can be dangerous. Razor-sharp shards of wood flying through the air<\/a>, who knows where they may land? Players, coaches, officials and fans have all been injured by broken bats.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a lot of talk<\/a>\u00a0about the relative safety of wood bats recently, which makes us wonder about the different kinds of breaks and what causes them. There\u2019s a really interesting site<\/a>\u00a0that explores the science of wood bats and explains the various causes of \u201cbat failures.\u201d Recommended reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broken wood bats can be dangerous. Razor-sharp shards of wood flying through the air, who knows where they may land? Players, coaches, officials and fans have all been injured by broken bats. There\u2019s been a lot of talk\u00a0about the relative safety of wood bats recently, which makes us wonder about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}