With the “adjustments” (cough cough) many major programs are currently making to create trampoline bats, one thing I am curious about is how the average and home run totals compare between the summer leagues and the NCAA Season.
Generally, in the Cape Cod League a good hitter’s average will dip between 100 and 150 points because of the quality of the pitching (no mid-week starters, everyone is a top end guy at their schools). With some of the shenanigans going on with this bats this year, that number could go up even more.
That’s not to say that summer leagues are immune from this stuff too. In 2012, I overheard a funny conversation in the press box where Paul Galop, the CCBL Commissioner at the time, admitted to multiple Cape team execs that the baseballs that summer were corked and juiced. There were lots of league wide offensive records that year when Judge and Schwarber were both on the Cape.
Generally, in the Cape Cod League a good hitter’s average will dip between 100 and 150 points because of the quality of the pitching (no mid-week starters, everyone is a top end guy at their schools). With some of the shenanigans going on with this bats this year, that number could go up even more.
That’s not to say that summer leagues are immune from this stuff too. In 2012, I overheard a funny conversation in the press box where Paul Galop, the CCBL Commissioner at the time, admitted to multiple Cape team execs that the baseballs that summer were corked and juiced. There were lots of league wide offensive records that year when Judge and Schwarber were both on the Cape.
