Out of sheer curiosity, why?
My main complaint with them is how they fly. If you spin them you don’t notice. Hit it flush at all and they get all sorts of weird.
I watched a batter pull a ball that would have been 6’ foul and watched it somehow come back and land just inside fair territory. That’s the main example that comes to mind. I’ve seen that ball make great outfielders look plum silly.
As a catcher, I’ve seen them almost corkscrew through the air when they’re hit really hard.
I have a handful of platinum dots in my BP bag just to see what the hype was about with them. They fly well if you spin them. I’ll credit them for that. But I’ve seen them run, tail, or die in situations where a normal ball wouldn’t. No matter the brand.
I had been gaming a bat nearly on it’s death bed all year with 52’s and had zero issues with it. We used one piece balls for one tournament and it cracked the 3rd game in. This incident could be complete coincidence, but how odd it went from showing no signs of slowing down to shark toothed almost beyond use in 3 games of swings.
Maybe Robert Insects can elaborate more on why or maybe he won’t speak on the matter. But I feel like it comes from the ball distorting when it’s hit flush that makes flight unpredictable at times. Whether the cover on a ball helps with that issue or there’s something different with these, I have zero clue.
Great concept behind the ball and there are plenty of people that like them. But I personally do not care for them at all. I find them when I pick up HR balls and I just turn around and sell them. I don’t even bother putting them in my BP bag.
