I've been looking for a light '15 Juggy for my wife (early batch 26ozer weighed in under 25oz). I got an offer for a shaved 26oz Juggy. Really? They are hot enough as they are.
WHB is just around the corner. There are still plenty of dirty bats out here. I'm still skeptical of every Easton I see. A dugout full of Salvos is a dead give away.
I feel the same way about Easton's that sell for $99, especially Salvo's, and Toxics.
Basically any bat that's cheap, shavers will pick up cause they are going to shave it anyway, and warranty/premature breakage isn't an issue.
52/300 lowered shaved bats
Or made it worse, lot of guys shaving bats trying to make up for lost performance rather than just hitting the ball better. I don't think a lot of guys understand the principal of the new ball & bats, they just try for a quick fix.
Bats are so hot out of the wrapper now, I don't know that they're not actually hurting bat performance shaving the new stuff. It just doesn't matter/make as much of a difference IMO. You're worse off stressing about who is/isn't, whether somebody would have made the play if the bat, yadayada
It is rampant in senior ball. 8 out of 10 people I sell bats to ask me how much they should roll it. When I say if you do the outer shell will show that it has been rolled, the next question that comes is should I have it shaved.
They all try to justify it by saying everyone else does it, so it goes on and on. They say this like it is a normal conversation.
This is the part that kills me around here, it's just normal conversation & nothing unusual or needing to hide. I've stopped thinking about it cause it really doesn't matter to me. Bats don't make up for crappy contact & there's nothing to do other than just play through it, just play your game & you can win/lose to cheaters or clean players just the same.
If infact every salvo is shaved how is it getting past compression testing in mesa. Not that its perfect. But you said your juggy was on the pass fail line. Well then that means you yourself and all teammates swinging the bat are swinging an illeagal bat. Not all salvos are shaved. And when they are broken inthey can hang with any other bat out there. I had one you guys tried calling it out every time i used it. I know it wasnt dirty. I had the reciept sent it in and got another when it broke.
I don't think he's saying every one is automatically a cheater bat, just that it was a weapon of choice for cheaters since it was cheap, responded well to shaving, and very popular. Same as the Toxics were before them & same as the $99 Easton's are now.
Someone accuses you of using dirty bats & you know that you don't, offer to swing there bat & get the same results or just ignore them. Most will shut up when you offer to hit with their bat, they either don't want you hitting their bat better than them or they're using a dirty bat themselves.
