Bat rolling is the unique process of breaking in a baseball or softball bat barrel to increase performance. The bat is repeatedly passed through a specialized rolling machine that slowly stretches a barrels composite fibers creating more trampoline effect, thus increasing overall batted ball speeds.
Bats directly out of the wrapper can take 500 or many more hits to start seeing a performance increase. To speed up the process, players looking for the competitive edge have their bats heat rolled for maximum performance on gameday. While batting distance will certainly improve a players game, th...
