-MIKE- wrote:

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Because there are other people with other statistics who say it's not
really happening more. There aren't really stats on broken bats and if
there are, now, it's too new a stat to have any value in a historic
analysis.
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Don't know who's done what to look at tape of games for years and
evaluate so won't comment too much on that aspect other than otomh I'd
tend to agree w/ the latter as being likely to have merit.

I would expect any increase in the number of incidents over the years is
also related to changes in the style of bats that are popular now vis a
vis those of years ago. Much thinner handles and lighter bats are more
in vogue than the "bottle" and heavier bats of yore as players look more
for bat speed rather than weight as the goal.

I think unless evaluations and analysis include the physical dimensions
as well as simply the material there are variables being ignored that
are likely to be significant in any correlation and hence conclusions
drawn w/o consideration of same are likely not valid.

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