This notion that the associations have that players are going to police themselves even a little bit is ridiculous. We had a tournament with no testing this spring where a guy hit a pitcher and knocked the mask off his helmet. He was okay, but I heard the bat tested at 180. Even if that's an exaggeration, it failed (limit is 220 for those that don't know), and as soon as word got out everyone was like, he's had that bat for years. I'm sure it's not shaved. You know he's a good dude.
Good dude or not, this is a stupid scenario. People assume because UTrip set the limit at 220 that that's the level right before a bat cracks, and it's not. Bats are insanely hot at 220 and only continue to get more so until they crack. You can't convince me that he didn't know his bat was failing and you can't convince me that the associations don't have some culpability in creating this situation. They're the ones taking our sanction fees every year to make sure this doesn't happen, and they've specifically created it.