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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.
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...
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...
16 wrz 2010 · In June 2003, the world of baseball was shocked by the revelation that Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs, one of the game’s finest sluggers, had been caught using an illegal bat. So-called...
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...
3 sie 2013 · In 2008, bats split into pieces once a game on average, posing injury risks to players, umpires and even fans. The issue coincided with a rapid rise in the popularity of maple bats.
While much of the baseball bat controversy has dealt with using aluminum bats at the amateur level as opposed to wooden bats at the professional level, there appears to be a new situation brewing with the type of wood that professional baseball players are choosing.
