Amateur Baseball
The science of the bat does not stop at the professional level — it starts there. The research Baseball Performance Lab conducts with MLB organizations informs everything downstream: how bats are engineered for the amateur game, how equipment is evaluated, and how the question of “what bat should this player use?” gets answered with data instead of guesswork.
Amateur Baseball
What are we doing for Amateur Baseball?
Baseball Performance Lab is guiding the development of the next generation of metal bats. Working alongside the engineering team at Marucci Sports, BPL studies the variables that drive bat performance in the amateur game: center of mass, moment of inertia, and the acoustic profile of ball-on-barrel impact.
Never before has metal bat development been guided by this kind of data. We analyze not just how a bat performs mechanically, but how it sounds — because the acoustic signature of a well-struck ball is measurable science. Sound performance and sound preference are not always the same thing, and understanding that gap is part of building a better bat.
Amateur Baseball
BPL’s work in amateur baseball is fundamentally a research and development story. We are the lab behind the science that shapes how bats are designed, tested, and eventually matched to players at every level — built on the same Marucci partnership that drives equipment development at the professional level.
college
College programs represent the highest level of the amateur game, and the equipment needs of college hitters are substantively different from any other level. Players are maturing physically, swing mechanics are still developing, and equipment decisions carry weight.
BPL works with college programs to bring professional-level bat science to the collegiate environment. Reach out to learn what a BPL relationship looks like for your program.
Amatuer Baseball
BPL’s proprietary Balance Point Index (BPI) — originally developed for wood bats — is being extended to the metal bat category. BPI provides a standardized metric for how a bat swings, independent of length and listed weight. In an equipment category where marketing often outpaces science, BPI brings objectivity and a common language for bat performance.