Hitting with the 2023 Marucci CatX Connect | BBCOR Baseball Bat Review

Oh my god dude that's going ridiculous. What up what up we're here with the baseball bat bros and today folks great looking bat here we have the new cat x connect from marucci which is going to be the two-piece hybrid version of the cat 10. Let's get it. All right folks so we had tried out the cat x one piece absolutely fantastic kind of like a marucci copycat voodoo one almost swings just as light if not lighter feels absolutely incredible that thing is electric man but today we have the two-piece version of it that's actually only twenty dollars more expensive uh that's actually the closest price margin i've ever seen between a one-piece alloy and a two-piece hybrid the only difference you're going to have a two-piece connection and a composite handle and a little more end loaded barrel ideally so we will see if the cat x connect is even better than the one piece and also see how it compares to a bat like the goods here let's get it all right first let's look at the barrel profiles here so uh kind of a shockingly small barrel profile on the cat x here goes way down there right i think this should be a little bigger yeah not a ton but still kind of a small barrel profile for a two-piece hybrid like if we compare it to the goods over here yeah definitely a bit more beef on the goods uh barrel right there so i'm hoping it's really easy to control nice and easy to swing great feel here i'm going to compare these two zach will compare the two-piece to the one-piece cat x we're out here at the ridgefield athletic complex today home of the ridgefield raptors i believe we have 310 down the line and 360 to center let's get it see how it bunts solid wind is blowing straight towards like the left field foul pole kind of that feels fantastic the ball is flying again today bro i'll pull come on hit it oh is that a video are we done yes best bat of all time that was a terrible swing dude i love it i love it dude it's like lighter than i thought it would have been it's super light for a two-piece hybrid it's definitely a little heavier than the one piece definitely but the barrel is more forgiving and the sound and the feel is like a little more satisfying you know oh oh my god that's going ridiculously far street oh dude the street over there is like way way way back there over there hill geez it's definitely a really really good towards the hands off the end not quite as much but it reminds me a lot of the select power but probably even lighter freaking g-hack i hope i don't hit a car bro come on oh okay uh few with the goods here it's basically blowing in now it's like just blowing straight in from right yeah not good wind and it's jumping man toward the end oh wow oh dude this is this thing that is absolutely killed this i think is a little hotter but the connect is definitely easier to control that's almost like kind of a hybrid between that connects almost kind of a hybrid between the caddx one piece and something like this this is definitely more on the far end of m loaded giant barrel hits absolute tanks dude this thing's amazing if if this wasn't so fragile bro this would potentially be the top bat for me it's just this is a liability man with that connector piece i really hope they figure that out in 2023 dude that is a bat that is hard to beat i feel like i don't have to swing as hard with this to create the same kind of loft and power yeah definitely the easier bat to control but it's just not quite as powerful as the goods it just serves a little bit different role in my opinion oh i kind of got beat all those people out there heads up oh dude that went in front of a bunch of people out there that was a nuke dude i feel like off of velo i would do better with this bat but like we're just talking power i think the goods definitely kind of has its number i want to hear your thought dude this is almost more similar to the caddx one piece than it is the goods in my opinion yeah i got that pretty well i feel more weight like there's a lot of in the hands way more weight in the handle i don't feel like i can whip it as much as i can the one piece it's for sure better towards the hands though yeah the end is a little underwhelming the end feels different it feels hot though i don't know i don't know i think the weight just feels i had a lot of weird stuff on it man like i feel like i'm not piecing up balls like i should i think there's a clunky amount of weight all in here right here it makes the bat like swing nice and light it's easy to control but it doesn't feel like you're able to throw the barrel even as well as you can with the one piece cap yes for sure see but then i get a ball like that it kind of jumps yeah yeah no it's like it's really good yeah it's still great yeah oh yeah see but then that it's like that like jump yeah you know the feel is amazing just the only beef i have is kind of the the weight distribution and how it swings had to save it off the top yeah i feel like we're both kind of in a similar boat it feels really really good yes but it wasn't like not everything was clicking as far as like a how we swung it kind of standpoint i picked up the goods i felt like i swung a little bit smoother so um pick up the one piece see what you think hands a little bit oh baby oh twice though not as good stayed in did you barrel that no that was hands the one piece the one first hack yep just the i mean the bat speeds on another level it is good lord yes dude that's a pain i mean yeah yeah yeah take one of the goods okay maybe i mean brunch yeah all right so i guess let's just rank these three bats do you feel like you have a good idea a hundred percent you want one more with the connect i'll take one more i think i have my ranking though when you get it it's awesome when you get it it feels buttery i don't even think it's a question of like i think this is really hot yeah i just feel like the waiting throws it almost feels like it throws my swing off a little bit i think that's what i needed to feel was to swing the goods yeah and now i can feel that swing looks fantastic we're spoiled we are three amazing freaking bats dude yeah see but then if you're like if you're a meta guy if you're a select guy this could be the bat for you 100 do you see what i'm saying that's weird it swings a lot like the meta it does i instantly got meta vibes and number i didn't really like i'm not a meta guy it's like a really like inside outy kind of swing you know the meta is yep and that is what this feels like almost sort of like that two-piece composite feel all right folks before we give our final thoughts here uh in a bat bro scale for the caddx connect we're going to do some exit elo testing we're in here on the hit tracks today at pdx eastside training uh we're going to see how the caddx connect compares against our top exit elo bat of the year the voodoo one we'll do a couple swings with this a few swings with this and then end back on the caddx connect and see where we're at and we have 36 of the exact same baseball here we have these uh cham pro pitching machine kevlar seam balls 98.4 left hands good launch angle though 89.2 didn't hurt delayed read 99.7 that's really good barrel deep still good hit 93.4 101.7 with the caddx connect we'll return to this at the end all right voodoo 101.7 is our current high uh high 90s is good barrel should go pretty far though 385 102 103.5 okay a couple more with the caddx connect here late read 101 nice a little more swing weight on this and quite a bit more forgiving barrel that's hands a little bit 93.5 this bat feels amazing on the hands this reminds me a lot of the select power this is a super super forgiving bat possibly hit it 101.2 we'll give the voodoo one more hack just because i freaking like hitting with it all or nothing got it baby 415 oh my 415 i'm the best bro all right so right there uh on average and max the voodoo one was hotter uh this is an awesome bat though it's just a bit different honestly more of like a contact that definitely more friendly down towards the hands tons of barrel down here whereas with the voodoo it'll lighten up on hands a little more if you get down here does a lot better kind of out towards the end a little bit more in this area um awesome bat it's just gonna have a slightly different bat bro scale we'll get into that here all right folks so the cat x connect i do think we kind of did it dirty um today we reviewed it against our number one ranked overall bat and exit below the voodoo one our number two overall ranked bat the cat x one piece and our number three overall ranked bb core bat the goods so while it went oh and three on matchups today this legit might be a top you know five six seven eight overall bb core bat this thing is very very good um it's just a little different than what i expected like the cat x connect is maybe closer to the meta in swing feel and performance than something like the goods really really good towards the hands especially not a very pronounced m load at all if we're putting together a bat bro scale for it i would probably say the sweet spot is around an eight or potentially a nine but then also the power is around an eight or potentially a nine so i'd probably actually put the sweet spot and the power at eight and a half i think the cat x being at a nine power is a little hotter than this honestly and then swing weight is probably going to be a five a little bit lighter than like the select power a lot closer to again something like the meta and if we look at some of those top 10 bats this is absolutely going to give a lot of those a run for its money the victus nox and the victus vandal the stinger nuke all of those bats are pretty niche bats this one is one of the most versatile bb core bats i've come across i could see a power hitter enjoying this bat and i could even see a contact hitter really enjoying this bat so i think this has a good argument uh for potentially uh five or sixth or seventh ranked overall bb core bat even though it didn't quite crack that top three that we were comparing it to today it's a super mario bat folks it's pretty dang good at everything and i think it's going to perform really well in terms of like sales because of that but comparing it to those top three or four bats folks the caddx the voodoo one the goods the select power i would probably honestly put the caddx connect behind all four of those but after that man if you look at five through ten this is one of the best bats if not the best bat in that group so very solid bat folks if you liked the video today make sure to drop a like subscribe to the channel you can check out all of our bb core rankings over at baseballbatbros.com we have our merch over there as well we'll see you guys next time peace out