Sports Product Review

It looks great, feels even better, but oh my goodness, how it hits. Splitrock Bats (www.splitrockbats.com) may make you think twice about ever swinging aluminum again.

They sent us two birch models to try: The 110 shown here, and the JH9, which we’ll get to in a subsequent review. It would be hyperbole to say any wood bat hits with the same “pop” as aluminum, but my son, who is playing in a wood bat summer league, says this is as close as he’s ever felt.

For sixteen years, Splitrock has been a leading provider of lumber to the minor leagues. And I can see why. While watching my son’s double-header last weekend I noticed the way the other kids on the team coveted his bat. He’d get on base and the on-deck batter would retrieve the 110 and, inevitably, look at it, even half-swing it on the way back to the dugout. Maybe I was just paying closer attention, but I saw more players looking at the label of this bat than all the other kids’ bats combined.

There’s a lot of good wood out there and it would be impossible to say any make or model is definitively “the best.” But based on the feedback from one 18 year-old wood bat “expert,” I can say if you get yourself a Splitrock, you’re going to love everything about it.

Source: Splitrock Bats