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30 paź 2022 · Major League Baseball forced Houston Astros catcher Martín Maldonado to stop using an illegal maple bat after Game 1 of the World Series on Friday, reports the New York Post.
29 paź 2022 · HOUSTON — Major League Baseball made Astros catcher Martin Maldonado stop using a bat it deemed illegal after World Series Game 1, a league official said Saturday. Maldonado was using a...
30 paź 2022 · Astros’ Martin Maldonado made an honest mistake with the illegal bats. According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, “A player may use a maple bat, but it has to meet MLB standards for...
19 sty 2009 · Less than a week after Major League Baseball announced new regulations in December concerning maple-wood bat production, a bat manufacturer named Romeo Filip sent an email to the owners and...
2 mar 2010 · NEW YORK — Many maple bats will be banned in the minor leagues this season, part of Major League Baseball’s push to stop shattered shards of wood from flying dangerously through the air. New...
30 paź 2022 · In an interview with Mark Berman after Game 2 of the World Series, Martin Maldonado cleared up the bat controversy stating that he just wanted to try out the bat given to him by his former Los...
Major League Baseball will need to closely monitor this safety threat now, as everyone in the vicinity of the plate is a possible target when a maple bat is being used. Furthermore, the use of maple bats will continue to trickle down to amateur baseball players competing in popular wooden bat leagues across the nation.
