Huge strides being made in reducing broken bats

JustinVerlander35 · Aug 3, 2012

It happens in nearly every game. A hitter swings and not only does the ball come off his bat, so does part of his bat.

Sometimes it's dangerous, the sheared-off bat hurtling like a misguided spear toward the pitcher, an infielder or even fans in the stands.

"Bats will always break," said Dan Halem, Major League Baseball's vice president for labor relations. "It is our goal to reduce catastrophic failures and make the game safer for everyone."

That's been MLB's goal since 2008, when bat breakages reached an all-time high, with approximately one per game.

Over the past four seasons, MLB has made a concerted effort to make bats safer through specific programs and regulations. In the process, there has been a steady decline in broken bats.

Constant for the past year, breakages currently occur at a rate of around a half-bat per game. Last season, the rate was .50 multipiece failures per game. The most up-to-date breakage information for this season shows a rate of .53 bats per game.
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